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Neglected and underutilized crops : future smart food /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Farooq, Muhammad, 1978- (Editor), Siddique, K. H. M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; San Diego, CA : Academic Press, an impritn of Elsevier, [2023]
Subjects:
Field crops.
Crops and climate.
Climatic changes.
Food security > Climatic factors.
Sustainable agriculture.
Crops > Effect of stress on.
Cultures de plein champ.
Cultures et climat.
Climat > Changements.
Agriculture durable.
Cultures > Effets du stress sur.
climate change.
sustainable agriculture (discipline)
Climatic changes
Crops and climate
Field crops
Food security > Climatic factors
Sustainable agriculture
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • <B>Part I: Introduction</b><br>1. Role of neglected and underutilized crops in global food security and biodiversity<br>2. Production of neglected and underutilized crops
  • challenges and opportunities<br><br><b>Part II: Cereal and Pseudocereal Crops</b><br>3. Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa)<br>4. Pendant amaranth (Amaranthus caudatus)<br>5. Canihua (Chenopodium pallidicaule)<br>6. Fiindi (Digitaria exilis)<br>7. Indian Barnyard millet (Echinochloa frumentacea)<br>8. Finger millet (Eleusine coracana)<br>9. Teff (Eragrostis tef)<br>10. Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum)<br>11. Proso millet (Panicum miliaceum)<br>12. Little millet (Panicum miliare)<br>13. Kodo millet (Paspalum scrobiculatum)<br>14. Foxtail millet (Setaria italica)<br>15. Triticale<br><br><b>Part III: Food Legume Crops</b><br>16. Ground bean (Kerstingiella geocarpa)<br>17. Lablab-bean (Lablab purpureus)<br>18. Pearl lupin (Lupinus mutabilis)<br>19. Horse gram (Macrotyloma uniflorum)<br>20. Winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus)<br>21. African yam bean (Sphenostylis stenocarpa)<br>22. Moth bean (Vigna aconitifolia)<br>23. Adzuki bean (Vigna angularis)<br>24. Ground-bean (Vigna subterranea)<br>25. Ricebean (Vigna umbellata)<br>26. Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranean)<br><br><b>Part IV: Oil Seeds</b><br>27. Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius)<br>28. Sesame (Sesamum indicum)<br>29. Spurge (Euphorbia lagascae)<br>30. Wild hazel (Simmondsia chinensis)<br>31. Camelina (Camelina sativa)