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Del 118 - Agronomy Monographs
Pearl Millet
A Resilient Cereal Crop for Food, Nutrition, and Climate Security
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 246 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In this age of climate change, discover how pearl millet is considered a viable alternative cereal crop for semi-arid and hot areas Pearl millet, a warm-season, dryland cereal crop, is a staple food for over 90 million people in Africa and Asia. Its nutritional superiority relative to other cereal crops, such as rice, wheat, maize, and sorghum, and its hardiness and adaptability to harsh environments and poor soils make it a potentially life-saving resource for poor populations and/or areas hit by damaging climatic conditions. With climate change Placing an ever-greater strain on global agrifood systems, pearl millet has never been a more important crop in the fight against poverty, hunger, and malnutrition. Pearl Millet offers a thorough introduction to this potentially vital grain. Coming on the heels of a 2023 United Nations declaration of the “International Year of Millets,” it is a crucial intervention in an essential humanitarian project. It is the first comprehensive book on the subject to appear in print. Key Features: Analysis of a potential lead crop for climate-change-affected areasDetailed coverage of all pearl millet’s unique features, such as inherent genetic diversity, gluten free applications, and suitability for double croppingAn author team with vast research and crop development experiencePearl Millet is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, certified and practicing professionals, as well as industry and academic researchers.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
556 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
The significance of zinc in human nutrition, high throughput zinc phenotyping techniques, breeding product profile design, new varieties and germplasm that are rich in zinc, and the genetics and genomics of zinc are all covered in this book.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
2 593 kr
Kommande
This edited book focuses on millets and their nutritional breeding potentials for breeding product development and commercialization. Not all commercial millet varieties are high in nutrition. This book describes the importance of iron, zinc, calcium in human nutrition, high-throughput phenotyping methods, designing new product profiles, novel germplasm and varieties, genetics and genomics, and breeding approaches. The public awareness about biofortification science is very limited; thus, possible scale-up R4D is also discussed. An ever-growing population and climate vulnerability risk food and nutritional security in the global south, particularly in drylands. Micronutrient malnutrition has long been big challenge for public health and human development in Asia and Africa. More than 3 billion people cannot afford nutritious diets. Most vulnerable group is women and children below 5 years of age. Breeding staple food crops with enriched essential nutrients is a sustainable solution to populations that relies on cereal-based diets. Millets are a staple food in India and sub-Saharan Africa. Improving millet nutrition will enhance the next generation's health and productivity. This book will serve as a scientific knowledge resource and reference for graduate students, researchers, and industreis other similar professionals to deep dive into growing biofortified millets.