This edited book brings together comprehensive information on various aspects of the biofortification of staple crops. It addresses the present status of food and nutritional security and highlights the importance of micronutrients in human health, a historical account of biofortification, current approaches and challenges, crop-specific biofortification efforts and various breeding approaches, including conventional, and genomics enabled improvement.

Chapter 1. Biofortification of staple crops: Present status and future strategies.- Chapter 2. Historical overview of biofortification in crop plants and its implications.- Chapter 3. Genetic fortification of rice to address hidden hunger: progress and prospects.- Chapter 4. Advances in Wheat biofortification and Mainstreaming Grain Zinc in CIMMYT Wheat.- Chapter 5. Biofortification of maize for nutritional security.- Chapter 6. Pearl millet: bio-fortification approaches in a micronutrient dense, climate-resilient nutri-cereal.- Chapter 7. Barley Biofortification.- Chapter 8. Prospects of Biofortification in Groundnut using Modern Breeding Approaches.- Chapter 9. Dry Bean Biofortification With Iron and Zinc.- Chapter 10. Lentil biofortification.- Chapter 11. Biofortification of Mungbean.- Chapter 12. Biofortification of Cassava: Recent Progress and Challenges Facing the Future.- Chapter 13. Vegetable biofortification: An underexploited silver lining for malnutrition management.- Chapter 14. Transgenics for Biofortification with special reference to Rice.- Chapter 15. Agronomic and transgenic approaches for rice Zn biofortification.- Chapter 16. Agronomic approaches for biofortification of staple food crops.- Chapter 17. Micronutrients: Soil to seed.- Chapter 18. Pulse crop biofortification towards human health, targeting prebiotic carbohydrates, protein, and minerals.- Chapter 19. Biofortification of chickpea.- Chapter 20. Bifortifying sorghum for delivering grain micronutrients in high yielding cultivars with market preferred traits.