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Neglected and Underutilized Crops
Future Smart Food
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- English
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About this book
Neglected and Underutilized Crops: Future Smart Food explores future food crops with climate resilience potential. Sections cover their botany, nutritional significance, global distribution, production technology, and tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses of neglected and underutilized crops. By simply changing species in a crop rotation system, the cycle of some pests and diseases is disrupted and probabilities of infestations are reduced. Finally, the book provides case studies that highlight where the adaptation of crops to local environments, especially with regard to climate change, have been successful.These crops can help make agricultural production systems more resilient to climate change. Although a few books on neglected and underutilized crops are available, this comprehensive book covers the full scope of crop husbandry, nutritional significance and global distribution.
- Contains consistent coverage of botany, nutritional significance, production technology, and tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses
- Presents case studies of success stories where adaptations in local environments have made a difference, especially with climate change
- Addresses key opportunities for improving global food security
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Yes, you can access Neglected and Underutilized Crops by Muhammad Farooq,Kadambot H.M. Siddique in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technik & Maschinenbau & Agribusiness. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Chapter 1 : Neglected and underutilized crops and global food security
- Chapter 2 : Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.)—a smart crop for food and nutritional security
- Chapter 3 : Cañahua (Chenopodium pallidicaule Aellen)
- Chapter 4 : Use of genomics and phenomics in grain amaranths for diversity assessment and breeding in the Americas
- Chapter 5 : Genetics, breeding, and genomics of Indian barnyard millet (Echinochloa frumentacea): status and perspectives
- Chapter 6 : Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn)
- Chapter 7 : Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench and F. tataricum Gaertn.)
- Chapter 8 : Fonio millets: an underutilized crop with potential as a future smart cereal
- Chapter 9 : Brown top millet (Brachiaria ramosa L. Stapf; Panicum ramosum L.)—a neglected and smart crop in fighting against hunger and malnutrition
- Chapter 10 : Proso millet (Panicum miliaceum L.)
- Chapter 11 : Kodo Millet (Paspalum scorbiculatum L.)
- Chapter 12 : Foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.): a model for small millets
- Chapter 13 : Triticale
- Chapter 14 : Kersting's groundnut (Macrotyloma geocarpum (Harms) Maréchal & Baudet): an African underutilized grain legume with high potential
- Chapter 15 : Lablab bean (Lablab purpureus L.)—An untapped resilient protein reservoir
- Chapter 16 : Pearl lupin (Lupinus mutabilis): a neglected high protein and oil content crop
- Chapter 17 : Winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) DC.)
- Chapter 18 : African yam bean (Sphenostylis stenocarpa hochst ex. A. Rich) Harms)
- Chapter 19 : Moth bean (Vigna aconitifolia (Jacq.) Marechal)
- Chapter 20 : Adzuki bean [Vigna angularis (willd.) Ohwi & Ohashi]
- Chapter 21 : Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.)
- Chapter 22 : Progress and opportunities on Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea [L.] Verdc.): genetic improvement and product development
- Chapter 23 : Rice bean (Vigna umbellata): a promising legume with unexplored potential
- Chapter 24 : Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.)
- Chapter 25 : Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.)
- Chapter 26 : Jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis): an oil-producing cash crop
- Chapter 27 : Camelina sativa (Cranz.) from minor crop to potential breakthrough
- Index
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