1st Edition

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

By U. S. Gupta Copyright 2011

    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.

    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

    Biography

    Gupta, U. S.