Developing Sustainable and Health-Promoting Cereals and Pseudocereals

Conventional and Molecular Breeding

Marianna Rakszegi, Maria Papageorgiou, João Miguel Rocha

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780323905664
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323906890
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Botany
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Developing Sustainable and Health Promoting Cereals and Pseudocereals: Conventional and Molecular Breeding reviews the most recent developments in the fields of cereal and pseudocereal breeding, with particular emphasis on the latest biotechnological techniques likely to lead to breakthrough changes in plant breeding. The book provides comprehensive information on the use of genetic resources or pre-breeding activities to improve health-related properties of cereals and pseudocereals. The text also explores targeted field-management practices and the latest in biotechnological methodologies, and offers a cohesive overview necessary for understanding the potential impacts and benefits of improved production of cereals and pseudocereals with high-nutritional value. - Includes coverage of cereals and pseudocereals in a single comprehensive volume - Focuses on sustainable circular economy, including assurance of food safety, quality, and health benefits - Examines breeding to attain robust cereal and pseudocereals with higher nutritional value and adapted to specific regions, climate change, and global warming

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contributors
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1 : Use of genetic resources and prebreeding activities in order to improve nutritional and health-related properties of cereals and pseudocereals
• Chapter 2 : Screening and use of nutritional and health-related benefits of the main crops
• Chapter 3 : Screening and use of nutritional and health-related benefits of the minor crops
• Chapter 4 : Screening and improving of nutritional and health-related compounds of pseudocereals
• Chapter 5 : Comparison of the nutritional value of minor and pseudocereal crops to major crops and the barriers in their breeding for developing healthy grains
• Chapter 6 : Field management practices to produce nutritional and healthier main crops
• Chapter 7 : Field management practices to produce nutritional and healthier minor crops
• Chapter 8 : Field management practices for pseudocereals: Yield gains and health benefits
• Chapter 9 : Methodologies for the development of cereals and pseudocereals for improved quality and nutritional value
• Chapter 10 : Rheology as a tool to predict the effect of different biotic and abiotic factors on the quality of cereals and pseudocereals
• Chapter 11 : Marker-assisted selection for the improvement of cereals and pseudocereals
• Chapter 12 : Transgenic approaches for nutritional quality improvement of cereals and pseudocereals
• Chapter 13 : Gene and base editing tools to accelerate cereal improvement
• Chapter 14 : Adaptation to abiotic stress factors and their effects on cereal and pseudocereal grain quality
• Chapter 15 : Climate change-induced alteration in biotic environment and its effect on cereal and pseudocereal quality
• Chapter 16 : Statistical modeling applications to mitigate the effects of climate change on quality traits of cereals: A bibliometric approach
• Chapter 17 : Transferring theoretical principles into practical applications: Cereals, pseudocereals, and their applications in breadmaking and other agri-food
• Chapter 18 : Economic importance of nutritional and healthy cereals and/or cereal products
• Chapter 19 : Consumer attitude toward nonconventional breeding
• Chapter 20 : Consumer acceptance of different cereal-based “healthy foods”
• Index
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