What's New about Crop Plants: Novel Discoveries of the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9781578086993 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 649 str.

U. S. Gupta;?Abar;?Abar

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Until recently, breeding efforts in mass produced food crops centered on high yield production while sacrificing flavor, taste and other quality traits. Now, more emphasis is being placed on the enhancement of nutritional and medicinal properties of the food crops. Aside from merely being considered a source of food, crops are today being looked from a health benefit perspective and even from an environmental standpoint. This volume looks at the use of crops for a myriad of purposes, including the prevention and/or mitigation of various diseases, vaccine and antigen production, biofuel production, and the suppression of weeds.

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Qualitative Improvement of Crop Plants

CEREALS

Rice

Wheat

Barley

Oat

Rye

MILLETS

Maize

Sorghum

CARBOHYDRATE RICH TUBERS

Potato

Sweet Potato

Cassava

GRAIN LEGUMES

Phaseolus

Vigna Species

Broad Bean

Chickpea

VEGETABLE CROPS

Tomato

Brassica Vegetables

Cucurbita Vegetables

Spinach

Onion

OILSEED CROPS

Soybean

Peanut

Oilseed Brassicas

Sunflower

Sugarcane

Cotton

Tobacco

O autorze

Gupta, U. S.