Author : Netravati Hiremath
Publisher :
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 48,75 MB
Release : 2017
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Author : Kumar G.N. Vinay
Publisher :
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 2015
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Author : L. Nandini
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 2008
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Author : Felipe Klein Ricachenevsky
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 2019-09-23
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ISBN : 2889630188
Author : Omena Bernard Ojuederie
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 18,32 MB
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 2832543324
Global demand for food is rising as a result of increases in the global population as well as dietary changes. Furthermore, climate change exerts additional pressure on the food supply, adversely affecting sustainable food production. Increased temperatures and drought stresses coupled with the migration of pests limit crop yields and affect their nutritional quality. Many staple crops are unable to adapt to these changing climatic conditions. To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nation to end hunger and promote good health and well-being, concerted efforts need to be made to enhance food production while mitigating the effects of climate change through the promotion of climate-smart agricultural practices and the utilization of neglected and underutilized crop species. These species can be highly nutritious and well-adapted to different agroecologies and climatic conditions, meaning that they offer the possibility of improving food and nutritional security.
Author : B. Naganagowda
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 34,88 MB
Release : 2016
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Page : 536 pages
File Size : 28,11 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Food
ISBN : 9789352676774
Author : Anil Kumar Siroha
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1000402894
Millets are low cost cereal grains and widely used in the food industry and animal husbandry as an important source of food and feed. As a rich source of starch, protein, minerals, vitamins, and specific bioactive compounds that contain beneficial antioxidant properties, they have gained considerable attention as a botanical dietary supplement and various functional foods. Millets: Properties, Processing, and Health Benefits explores millet production, chemistry and nutritional aspects, processing technologies, product formulations, and more. Understanding the properties of millets provides a basis for better utilizing millet crops, in addition to further development of millets as an important industrial crop. Key Features: Provides millet taxonomy, history, nutritional aspects, and health benefits Discusses the physical and functional properties of millets Explores various millet-based products Deals with starch composition, structure, properties, and applications Touches on postharvest management of millets This book combines information on the composition, functional properties and processing along with information on the health properties of millets. With its unique presentation on millets flour and starch, it will be suitable for those wanting to use millets in various food products, including food technologists, nutritionists, research scientists, and agriculture professionals.
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 31,95 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789251033814
The publication is broad in scope and coverage, starting with the history and nature of sorghum and millets and dealing with production, utilization and consumption. It provides extensive information on the nutritional value, chemical composition, storage and processing of these foods. In addition, the anti-nutritional factors present in these foods and ways of reducing their health hazards are discussed. The authors have described formulations of various popular foods prepared from sorghum and millets and their nutritional composition and quality, and they have compiled many recipes for the preparation of foods from regions where sorghum and millets are important dietary staples.
Author : Vijay Rani Rajpal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 30,98 MB
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319270966
The world population is estimated to reach to more than 10 billion by the year 2050. These projections pose a challenging situation for the agricultural scientists to increase crops productivity to meet the growing food demands. The unavailability and/or inaccessibility to appropriate gene pools with desired traits required to carry out genetic improvement of various crop species make this task formidable for the plant breeders. Incidentally, most of the desired genes reside in the wild genetic relatives of the crop species. Therefore, exploration and characterization of wild genetic resources of important crop species is vital for the efficient utilization of these gene pools for sustainable genetic improvements to assure food security. Further, understanding the myriad complexities of genic and genomic interactions among species, more particularly of wild relatives of crop species and/or phylogenetically distant germplasm, can provide the necessary inputs to increase the effectiveness of genetic improvement through traditional and/or genetic engineering methods. This book provides comprehensive and latest insights on the evolutionary genesis of diversity, access and its utilization in the evolution of various crop species. A comprehensive account of various crops, origin, exploitation of the primary, secondary and tertiary gene pools through breeding, biosystematical, cytogenetical and molecular phylogenetical relationships, and genetic enhancement through biotechnological interventions among others have been provided as the necessary underpinnings to consolidate information on the effective and sustainable utilization of the related genetic resources. The book stresses upon the importance of wild germplasm exploration, characterization and exploitation in the assimilation of important crop species. The book is especially intended for students and scientists working on the genetic improvement of crop species. Plant Breeders, Geneticists, Taxonomists, Molecular Biologists and Plant Biotechnologists working on crop species are going to find this book very useful.
