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Utilizing the underutilized plant resources for development of life style foods: Putting nutrigenomics to use

Sufficient amount of minerals, vitamins, and proteins in human diet play indispensable role in maintaining the active metabolism for better human health. All the essential nutrients that are requisite for an individual's survival are acquired from plants as well as animals. Micronutrients and m...

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Published in:Plant physiology and biochemistry 2022-01, Vol.171, p.128-138
Main Authors: Mir, Rakeeb Ahmad, Nazir, Muslima, Sabreena, Naik, Samiullah, Mukhtar, Shazia, Ganai, Bashir Ahmad, Zargar, Sajad Majeed
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Language:English
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Summary:Sufficient amount of minerals, vitamins, and proteins in human diet play indispensable role in maintaining the active metabolism for better human health. All the essential nutrients that are requisite for an individual's survival are acquired from plants as well as animals. Micronutrients and macronutrients directly influence the metabolic pathways and their deficiencies play a substantial role in development of manifold disorders. In addition to environmental factors, quality and quantity of foods are key factors in maintaining the human health. Transition from healthy to diseased state is concurrent with the pattern of gene expression that is largely influenced by nutrition and environment. A combined approach to study the influence of nutrition on expression of numerous genes can be well explored through nutrigenomic studies. Nutrigenomics includes studies wherein applied genomics is used to investigate nutritional science to understand the compartmentalization of genes that influence the cause of diet-related complications. This review describes the role of underutilized crops as frontline foods to circumvent the health complications through the nutrigenomic studies. Further dynamics of nutrigenomic tools to study the impact of nutrition on the changing pattern of genome stability and gene expression for developing precise safety measures against wide range of health ailments linked to metabolic networks. Additionally, this review provides detailed information on nutrigenomic studies undertaken to unravel the potential of underutilized crops to augment the human health and to carry the agronomic/genomic approaches to enhance nutritional profile of underutilized crops to overcome diet-related disorders. [Display omitted] •Role of nutrigenomics study to unravel impact of nutrition on genome stability and gene expression.•Impact of functional foods on health ailments.•Potential of underuitilised food crops to address health ailments due to nutritional imbalances.•Role of genomics in improving nutritional values of underuitilised food crops.
ISSN:0981-9428
1873-2690
DOI:10.1016/j.plaphy.2021.12.038