Varieties and Landraces

Cultural Practices and Traditional Uses

Marney Pascoli Cereda, Olivier Francois Vilpoux

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780323900577
• eBook ISBN: 9780323910651
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Food Science
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Varieties and Landraces: Cultural Practices and Traditional Uses, Volume Two in the Underground Starchy Crops of South American Origin series, brings information on the applied level of producing and using starch from a range of plants grown in tropical and subtropical areas of South American origin. The book presents the economic and social importance of these crops that store starch in underground organs. The title also explores bioactive compounds as a way for the valorization of these crops, along with commercial and traditional cultivation in South America (Colombia/Venezuela/Andean highlands, Mexico, Brazilian savannah and Pantanal, besides the Amazon forest), bringing botanical information, too. Edited by a team of experts with a solid background in starch extraction research, this book is ideal for anyone involved in research and development, as well as anyone in cultivation, quality control and legislation in the field of starch. - Presents a summary view of how agricultural production and cultivation of starchy crops occur in their countries of origin, highlighting their strengths and challenges - Covers the possibilities for local development by valuing products obtained from natural crops in more distant and scarcer markets of variability - Evaluates landraces that are found in small-scale agriculture where traditions are maintained, including tubers, rhizomes and roots as carbohydrate sources used as stable foods in South American countries

Table of contents

• Varieties and Landraces
• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• About the Editors
• Chapter 1 Introduction—overview of research on underground starchy crops of South American origin
• Chapter 2 Cultivation of arrowroot (Maranta arundinacea) in Brazil—planting material from rooted stems, preserving rhizomes for starch production
• Chapter 3 Yam (Dioscorea spp.) cultivation and landraces with market potential in South America
• Chapter 4 Dioscorea trifida L.f.: a little known South American species
• Chapter 5 Potato (Solanum tuberosum, L.) commercial and traditional cultivation in Andean highlands—Peru/Bolivia
• Chapter 6 Ethnobotany of Andean minor tuber crops: tradition and innovation—Oca (Oxalis tuberosa Molina—Oxalidaceae), Mashua (Tropaeolum tuberosum Ruíz & Pav.—Tropaeoleaceae) and Ulluco (Ullucus tuberosus Caldas—Basellaceae)
• Chapter 7 Ethnobotany of Andean root crops: tradition and innovation—Arracacha (Arracacia xanthorrhiza Bancr.), Yacón (Smallanthus sonchifolius (Poepp.) H. Rob.), Mauka (Mirabilis expansa (Ruíz & Pav.) Standl.), Ahipa (Pachyrhizus ahipa Parodi), Maca (Lepidium meyenii Walp.), Achira (Canna indica L.)
• Chapter 8 Yam beans (Pachyrhizus tuberosus (Lam.) Spreng. and Pachyrhizus erosus (L.) Urb.—Fabaceae)—lowland South American and Meso-American cultivars and landraces with starch and protein market potential—their botany, agronomy, ethnobotany, and present uses
• Chapter 9 Cassava cyanogenic glycosides: importance, toxicity, and dosage methods
• Chapter 10 Ethnobotany and characterization of cassava varieties of central Brazil. A case study
• Chapter 11 Variation in cassava landraces: high levels of diversity in germplasm from central Brazil
• Chapter 12 Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L. Lam.) cultivation and potentialities
• Chapter 13 Agronomic characteristics (varieties or landraces) and potential of Xanthosoma sagittifolium as food and starch source
• Chapter 14 Yautía (Xanthosoma sagittifolium) in the food culture of Puerto Rico
• Chapter 15 Amazonas forest (Brazil, Equador, Colombia, and Venezuela). A case study of “mairá” potato (Casimirella spp.) and its potential as a starchy crop in Brazilian Amazonia
• Chapter 16 Goeppertia allouia, a nonconventional starchy crop—focusing on food use
• Index