_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ # Research Scholar. *Corresponding author: E-mail: swatirr6@gmail.com; International Journal of Plant & Soil Science 34(15): 29-36, 2022; Article no.IJPSS.83688 ISSN: 2320-7035 Agronomic Biofortification of Zinc in Wheat Swati Swayamprabha Pradhan a*# , Santosh Kumar Singh b# , Ram Kumar Singh a# , Pooja a# and Sudhanshu Verma a# a Department of Agronomy, Institute of Agricultural Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. b Department of Agronomy, Sri Durga Ji P. G. College Chandeshwar, Azamgarh, India. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration among all authors. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734/IJPSS/2022/v34i1531004 Open Peer Review History: This journal follows the Advanced Open Peer Review policy. Identity of the Reviewers, Editor(s) and additional Reviewers, peer review comments, different versions of the manuscript, comments of the editors, etc are available here: https://www.sdiarticle5.com/review-history/83688 Received 05 January 2022 Accepted 02 March 2022 Published 19 April 2022 ABSTRACT Intensive cropping system with imbalance use of fertilizers are responsible for declining soil health, underground water table, declining land and water productivity, emergence of new micronutrient deficiencies, new weed flora, and resistance to herbicides especially in emerging countries. This is further intensified when micronutrients particularly zinc (Zn), which is essential for human health, particularly in developing countries. Zn biofortification is a strategy for improving the intrinsic Zn content of the edible portion of plants via application of Zn-enriched fertilizers to soil or by foliar application at a predetermined stage and a proper dose. The most common cereal in the human diet is wheat, which make it most suitable targets for agronomic biofortification. The concentration of Zn in wheat grain is genotype-dependent and interacts with the environment, causing variation in micronutrient concentrations. Given Zn's importance in cereal-based nutrition, zinc biofortification seems to to be an innovative technology for alleviating zinc deficiency in human health, particularly on the Indian subcontinent, by applying Zn as a foliar or soil application. Keywords: Biofortification; Zinc; Wheat. 1. INTRODUCTION Among the cereals, wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is considered as the most important field crop in the world covering 220.10 m ha and with a production of 763.26 m t [1]. It is used as staple food by more than one third of the world's population. As one of the commonest cereal Review Article