Sentence examples for a critical micronutrient from inspiring English sources

Soil incorporation of cereal straw to avoid burning and air pollution may influence the availability of Zn, a critical micronutrient in cereal production.

Iron is a critical micronutrient for both plant and animal nutrition, serving as a required co-factor for a variety of cellular processes.

Magnesium is a critical micronutrient that is essential in the maintenance of the calcium/magnesium flow across neuronal cell membranes [ 89].

If I may borrow the nutritionist's reductionist vocabulary for a moment, there are a host of critical micronutrients that are harder to get from a diet of refined seeds than from a diet of leaves.

Estimates indicate that 1 in 3 children, and 1 in 4 adults in Sri Lanka suffer from iron deficiency making it the most critical micronutrient related deficiency in the country.

The Vitamin A supplementation will provide children with one of the most critical micronutrients required for good health in a child's early years.

More than half suffer malnutrition due to insufficient intake of calories, protein or critical micronutrients such as vitamin A, iodine and iron, or from obesity.

This study was designed to compare the efficiency of different mitigation strategies against low root zone temperatures during early growth as a major constraint for maize cultivation in temperate climates [1 4], including supplementation of critical micronutrients (Zn, Mn) [14], application of seaweed extracts [15], and inoculation with plant growth-promoting and cold- tolerant bacteria [16].

In accordance with the observations of Imran et al. [14], supplementation of critical micronutrients, particularly Zn, was effective in mitigating growth depressions (Fig. 1) and oxidative leaf damage in maize seedlings exposed to low RZT (Fig. 2).

The study provides evidence that delivery of critical micronutrients especially zinc and iron via food based vehicle, milk in this instance, is a feasible option and produces impact on growth, anemia and iron status similar to or better than that observed in supplementation trials.

Similar logic postulates that past scarcity of calorie dense foods and critical micronutrients has also shaped modern food preferences.