The Quinoa Genome

Author : Sandra M. Schmöckel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030652371

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The Quinoa Genome by Sandra M. Schmöckel Pdf

This book focuses on quinoa, providing background information on its history, summarizing recent genetic and genomic advances, and offering directions for future research. Meeting the caloric and nutritional demands of our growing population will not only require increases in overall food production, but also the development of new crops that can be grown sustainably in agricultural environments that are increasingly susceptible to degradation. Quinoa is an ancient crop native to the Andean region of South America that has recently gained international attention because its seeds are high in protein, particularly in essential amino acids. Quinoa is also highly tolerant of abiotic stresses, including drought, frost and salinity. For these reasons, quinoa has the potential to help address issues of food security – a potential that was recognized when the United Nations declared 2013 the International Year of Quinoa. However, more effort is needed to improve quinoa agronomically and to understand the mechanisms of its abiotic stress tolerance; the recent development of genetic and genomic tools, including a reference genome sequence, will now help accelerate research in these areas.

Author : Atul Bhargava,Shilpi Srivastava
Publisher : CABI
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781780642260

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Quinoa by Atul Bhargava,Shilpi Srivastava Pdf

Quinoa is an invaluable crop, highlighted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as one of the world's main crops for future food security. The first comprehensive review of quinoa, this book includes four sections covering the history of the crop, phylogeny and systematics, botany and agrotechnology, and the qualitative aspects, economics and marketing of quinoa, making it a vital resource for students and researchers of crop science.

Author : Irwin Goldman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119521310

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Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 42 by Irwin Goldman Pdf

Plant Breeding Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on plant genetics and the breeding of all types of crops by both traditional means and molecular methods. Many of the crops widely grown today stem from a very narrow genetic base; understanding and preserving crop genetic resources is vital to the security of food systems worldwide. The emphasis of the series is on methodology, a fundamental understanding of crop genetics, and applications to major crops.

Author : Chittaranjan Kole
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540345169

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Pulses, Sugar and Tuber Crops by Chittaranjan Kole Pdf

Pulses, Sugar and Tuber Crops comprises reviews contributed by 47 eminent scientists from 10 countries. The chapters on common bean, pea, cowpea, sugarcane and potato include comprehensive reviews of voluminous research findings. Fundamental aspects and molecular results are also presented for eight ‘orphan crops’ of high agroeconomic importance including mungbean, lentil, chickpea, lathyrus, pigeonpea, sweet potato, cassava and yam. works on quinoa and Bambara groundnut are reviewed for the first time.

Author : Kevin S. Murphy,Janet Matanguihan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118628102

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Quinoa by Kevin S. Murphy,Janet Matanguihan Pdf

Quinoa is an ancient grain that has grown in popularity in recent years. It has been known as a good source of both protein and fiber. As the demand for quinoa increases a comprehensive and up-to-date reference on the biology and production of the crop is essential. Quinoa: Improvement and Sustainable Production brings together authors from around the world to provide a complete assessment of the current state of global quinoa research and production. Topics covered include quinoa history and culture, genomics and breeding, agronomy, nutrition, marketing, and end-uses. The book focuses in particular on the emerging role of quinoa in providing increased food security to smallholder farmers and communities throughout the world. Quinoa will interest quinoa researchers, producers, crop scientists, agronomists, and plant geneticists, as well as advanced students working with this important grain.

Author : Vijay Gahlaut
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819991754

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Genetics and Genomics of High-Altitude Crops by Vijay Gahlaut Pdf

Author : Ajit Varma
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811638329

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Biology and Biotechnology of Quinoa by Ajit Varma Pdf

This book is designed to popularize Quinoa cereal among both scientific and food industry. Quinoa is an attractive candidate for protein replacement, has potential for futuristic biotechnological modifications, and is able to grow under many different abiotic stresses. To save the world from animal cruelty, quinoa emerges as a hero for vegans and vegetarians. This book deals with morphological features, life cycle, nutritional qualities, genetics, agronomic manipulations, ecological communications, stress tolerance mechanisms, and food applications of Chenopodium quinoa. Quinoa is a pseudo-cereal native to Andes Region in South America. Over time, it spread to many different regions worldwide and is emerging as protein-rich vegetarian food source. In order to cure malnutrition globally, it is important to channel this lesser-known grain to local cultivators. This can only be done through well-proven scientific data that supports its qualities. This book aims to do the same, while also giving an insight into the vast scope quinoa posses as an experimental crop. Its stress-tolerant abilities can inspire scientists to understand those mechanisms, further exploit them, and even introduce them into other stress-sensitive crops. In future, quinoa can be among the top sources that offer food security. Due to its adaptability, ease of cultivation, and rich output, sustainability can be achieved by regulating its breeding and growth. This book is of interest to researchers, teachers, agronomic cultivators, environmentalists, botanists, microbiologists, geneticists and food technologists. This book covers recent advances, challenges in cultivation, biology, nutrition, and agricultural science topics, suitable for both young learners and advanced scientists. Cultivators who want to know more about quinoa and introduce it into their agronomic applications will find helpful information from the text.

Author : Jameel M. Al-Khayri,Shri Mohan Jain,Dennis V. Johnson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030231088

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Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Cereals by Jameel M. Al-Khayri,Shri Mohan Jain,Dennis V. Johnson Pdf

This book examines the development of innovative modern methodologies towards augmenting conventional plant breeding, in individual crops, for the production of new crop varieties under the increasingly limiting environmental and cultivation factors to achieve sustainable agricultural production, enhanced food security, in addition to providing raw materials for innovative industrial products and pharmaceuticals. This Volume 5, subtitled Cereals, focuses on advances in breeding strategies using both traditional and modern approaches for the improvement of individual crops. It addresses important staple food crops including barley, fonio, finger millet, foxtail millet, pearl millet, proso millet, quinoa, rice, rye, tef, triticale and spelt wheat. The volume is contributed by 53 internationally reputable scientists from 14 countries. Each chapter comprehensively reviews the modern literature on the subject and reflects the authors own experience.

Author : Arafat Abdel Hamed Abdel Latef
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811951213

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Sustainable Remedies for Abiotic Stress in Cereals by Arafat Abdel Hamed Abdel Latef Pdf

This book is an elaborate account of the effects of abiotic stressors on cereals crops. It not only discusses the impacts of abiotic stress on the crops but also the physiological, biochemical, and molecular strategies applied in plant of cereal crops to alleviate the detrimental effects of abiotic stressors. The book also elaborates on various molecular response to the abiotic stress. It is a knowledgebase providing readers latest updates on development of high-performance diagnostics, stress induced responses, genomics, phenomics and metabolomics involved in abiotic stress tolerance of cereal food crops. The book is useful for plant scientists and research scholars. Post graduate students of agriculture sciences, plant physiology, botany and biochemistry also benefit from this compilation.

Author : Thomas Dresselhaus,Ralph Hückelhoven
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-16
Category : Biology (General)
ISBN : 9783038974635

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Biotic and Abiotic Stress Responses in Crop Plants by Thomas Dresselhaus,Ralph Hückelhoven Pdf

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Biotic and Abiotic Stress Responses in Crop Plants" that was published in Agronomy

Author : Shri Mohan Jain,S. Dutta Gupta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400755000

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Biotechnology of Neglected and Underutilized Crops by Shri Mohan Jain,S. Dutta Gupta Pdf

This important reference is the first comprehensive resource worldwide that reflects research achievements in neglected and underutilized crop biotechnology, documenting research events during the last three decades, current status, and future outlook. This book has 16 chapters divided into 4 sections. Section 1 has three chapters dealing with Chenopodium as a potential food source, thin cell layer technology in micropropagation of Jatropha, and Panax vietnamensis. Section 2 deals with molecular biology and physiology of Haberlea rhodopensis, cell trait prediction in vitro and in vivo of legumes, and application of TILLING in orphan crops. Section 3 has five chapters on biotechnology of neglected oil crops, Quinoa, Erucia sativa, Stylosanthes, and Miscanthus. And Section 4 contains five chapters mainly on genetic transformation of Safflower, Jatropha, Bael, and Taro. This section also includes a chapter on genetic engineering of Mangroves.

Author : Jill M. Farrant,Maria-Cecília D. Costa
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783039281220

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Molecular Mechanisms and Genetics of Plant Resistance to Abiotic Stress by Jill M. Farrant,Maria-Cecília D. Costa Pdf

We are currently experiencing a climate crisis that is associated with extreme weather events worldwide. Some of its most noticeable effects are increases in temperatures, droughts, and desertification. These effects are already making whole regions unsuitable for agriculture. Therefore, we urgently need global measures to mitigate the effects of climate breakdown as well as crop alternatives that are more stress-resilient. These crop alternatives can come from breeding new varieties of well-established crops, such as wheat and barley. They can also come from promoting underutilized crop species that are naturally tolerant to some stresses, such as quinoa. Either way, we need to gather more knowledge on how plants respond to stresses related to climate breakdown, such as heat, water-deficit, flooding high salinity, nitrogen, and heavy metal stress. This Special Issue provides a timely collection of recent advances in the understanding of plant responses to these stresses. This information will definitely be useful to the design of new strategies to prevent the loss of more cultivable land and to reclaim the land that has already been declared unsuitable.

Author : Dinesh Adhikary,Michael K. Deyholos,John P. Délano-Frier
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030723651

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The Amaranth Genome by Dinesh Adhikary,Michael K. Deyholos,John P. Délano-Frier Pdf

This book describes the development of genetic resources in amaranths, with a major focus on genomics, reverse, and forward genetics tools and strategies that have been developed for crop improvement. Amaranth is an ancient crop native to the New World. Interest in amaranths is being renewed, due to their adaptability, stress tolerance, and nutritional value. There are about 65 species in the genus, including Amaranthus caudatus L., A. cruentus L., and A. hypochondriacus L., which are primarily grown as protein-rich grains or pseudocereals. The genus also includes major noxious weeds (e.g., A. palmeri). The amaranths are within the Caryophyllales order and thus many species (e.g., A. tricolor) produce red (betacyanin) or yellow (betaxanthin) betalain pigments, which are chemically distinct from the anthocyanins responsible for red pigmentation in other plants. A. hypochondriacus, which shows disomic inheritance (2n = 32; n= 466 Mb), has been sequenced and annotated with 23,059 protein-coding genes. Additional members of the genus are now also been sequenced including weedy amaranths, other grain amaranths, and their putative progenitors.

Author : Chittaranjan Kole
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642143878

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Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources by Chittaranjan Kole Pdf

Wild crop relatives are now playing a significant part in the elucidation and improvement of the genomes of their cultivated counterparts. This work includes comprehensive examinations of the status, origin, distribution, morphology, cytology, genetic diversity and available genetic and genomic resources of numerous wild crop relatives, as well as of their evolution and phylogenetic relationship. Further topics include their role as model plants, genetic erosion and conservation efforts, and their domestication for the purposes of bioenergy, phytomedicines, nutraceuticals and phytoremediation. Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources comprises 10 volumes on Cereals, Millets and Grasses, Oilseeds, Legume Crops and Forages, Vegetables, Temperate Fruits, Tropical and Subtropical Fruits, Industrial Crops, Plantation and Ornamental Crops, and Forest Trees. It contains 125 chapters written by nearly 400 well-known authors from about 40 countries.

Author : Vijay Rani Rajpal,S. Rama Rao,S.N. Raina
Publisher : Springer
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319270968

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Gene Pool Diversity and Crop Improvement by Vijay Rani Rajpal,S. Rama Rao,S.N. Raina Pdf

The world population is estimated to reach to more than 10 billion by the year 2050. These projections pose a challenging situation for the agricultural scientists to increase crops productivity to meet the growing food demands. The unavailability and/or inaccessibility to appropriate gene pools with desired traits required to carry out genetic improvement of various crop species make this task formidable for the plant breeders. Incidentally, most of the desired genes reside in the wild genetic relatives of the crop species. Therefore, exploration and characterization of wild genetic resources of important crop species is vital for the efficient utilization of these gene pools for sustainable genetic improvements to assure food security. Further, understanding the myriad complexities of genic and genomic interactions among species, more particularly of wild relatives of crop species and/or phylogenetically distant germplasm, can provide the necessary inputs to increase the effectiveness of genetic improvement through traditional and/or genetic engineering methods. This book provides comprehensive and latest insights on the evolutionary genesis of diversity, access and its utilization in the evolution of various crop species. A comprehensive account of various crops, origin, exploitation of the primary, secondary and tertiary gene pools through breeding, biosystematical, cytogenetical and molecular phylogenetical relationships, and genetic enhancement through biotechnological interventions among others have been provided as the necessary underpinnings to consolidate information on the effective and sustainable utilization of the related genetic resources. The book stresses upon the importance of wild germplasm exploration, characterization and exploitation in the assimilation of important crop species. The book is especially intended for students and scientists working on the genetic improvement of crop species. Plant Breeders, Geneticists, Taxonomists, Molecular Biologists and Plant Biotechnologists working on crop species are going to find this book very useful.