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Descriptor English: Biofortification
Descriptor Spanish: Biofortificación
Descriptor biofortificación
Entry term(s) cultivos biofortificados
Scope note: Mejorar el VALOR NUTRICIONAL de los alimentos vegetales enriqueciendo el entorno de las plantas, o utilizando el FITOMEJORAMIENTO y la INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA para aumentar la capacidad de sintetizar VITAMINAS o tomar NUTRIENTES esenciales del suelo.
Descriptor Portuguese: Biofortificação
Descriptor French: Bioenrichissement
Entry term(s): Biofortified Crop
Biofortified Crops
Crop, Biofortified
Crops, Biofortified
Tree number(s): J01.040.227.250
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000072759
Scope note: Improving the NUTRITIONAL VALUE of plant foods by augmenting the plant's environment, by using PLANT BREEDING, or by GENETIC ENGINEERING plants to increase their ability to synthesize VITAMINS or uptake essential NUTRIENTS from the soil.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Previous Indexing: Food, Fortified (2005-2016)
Public MeSH Note: 2017
History Note: 2017
Related: Food, Fortified MeSH
DeCS ID: 56804
Unique ID: D000072759
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Date Established: 2017/01/01
Date of Entry: 2016/07/08
Revision Date: 2016/06/30
Biofortification - Preferred
Concept UI M000617989
Scope note Improving the NUTRITIONAL VALUE of plant foods by augmenting the plant's environment, by using PLANT BREEDING, or by GENETIC ENGINEERING plants to increase their ability to synthesize VITAMINS or uptake essential NUTRIENTS from the soil.
Preferred term Biofortification
Biofortified Crops - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000617995
Preferred term Biofortified Crops
Entry term(s) Biofortified Crop
Crop, Biofortified
Crops, Biofortified



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