| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiii, 1635 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)) |
| Contents |
Volume 1 -- Part I Cereal Crops -- Redesigning Rice as a Promising Nutraceutical Functional Food -- Wheat Nutraceutomics: Breeding, Genomics, Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology -- Maize Nutraceutomics: Genomics, Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology -- Barley: From Molecular Basis of Quality to Advanced Genomics-Based Breeding -- Oats: Nutritional Uniqueness and Breeding of a Healthy Superfood -- Genetic Improvement of Sorghum: Crop Genome Designing for Nutraceuticals -- Breeding Efforts on Grain Micronutrient Enhancement in Pearl Millet -- Nutraceutomics of Foxtail Millet (Setaria italica L.): Insights -- Genetic and Genomic Resources for Harnessing the Health-Related Genes in Finger Millet -- Proso Millet Nutraceutomics for Human Health and Nutritional Security -- Part II Oilseed Crops -- Nutraceuticals in Soybean: Biosynthesis, Advanced Genetic Research, and Usage in Food -- Nutraceutical Potential of Rapeseed: Breeding and Biotechnological Approaches -- Nutragenomic Approaches in Sunflower: Genetic Improvement in Oil Quality -- Next-Generation Breeding for Nutritional Traits in Peanut -- Genomic Designing for Nutraceuticals in Brassica juncea: Advances and Future Prospects -- Nutraceutomics of the Ancient Oilseed Crop Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) -- Nutraceutical Usages and Nutrigenomics of Castor -- Genetic Enhancement of Nutraceuticals in Linseed: Breeding and Molecular Strategies -- Increasing Nutraceutical and Pharmaceutical Applications of Safflower: Genetic and Genomic Approaches -- Oil Palm: Genome Designing for Improved Nutritional Quality -- Part III Pulse Crops -- Nutritional Traits of Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris): Nutraceutical Characterization and Genomics -- Genetic Improvement of Nutraceutical Traits in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) -- Nutrient-Dense Pea (Pisum sativum L.): Genetics and Genomics-Mediated Developments -- Breeding Cowpea: A Nutraceutical Option for Future Global Food and Nutritional Security -- Lentils (Lens culinaris Medik): Nutritional Profile and Biofortification Prospects -- Grain Micronutrients in Pigeonpea: Genetic Improvement Using Modern Breeding Approaches -- Nutrigenomics of Mungbean -- Rice Bean: A Neglected and Underutilized Food Crop Emerges as a Repertory of Micronutrients Essential for Sustainable Food and Nutritional Security -- Volume 2 -- Part IV Fruit Crops -- Improvement of Nutraceutical Traits of Banana: New Breeding Techniques -- Apples: Role of Nutraceutical Compounds -- Integrating Omic Tools to Design Nutraceutically Rich Citrus -- Watermelon: Advances in Genetics of Fruit Qualitative Traits -- Grapes: A Crop with High Nutraceuticals Genetic Diversity -- Mango Nutrigenomics for Nutritional Security -- Genetic Enhancement of Nutraceuticals in Papaya (Carica papaya L.) -- Avocado: Agricultural Importance and Nutraceutical Properties -- Melon Nutraceutomics and Breeding -- Guava: A Nutraceutical-Rich Underutilized Fruit Crop -- Date Palm: Genomic Designing for Improved Nutritional Quality -- Current Advances in Health-Related Compounds in Sweet Cherry (Prunus avium L.) -- Part V Vegetable Crops -- Potato Nutraceuticals: Genomics and Biotechnology for Bio-fortification -- Tomato: Genetics, Genomics, and Breeding of Health-Related Traits -- Genome Designing for Nutritional Quality in Vegetable Brassicas -- Health-Enhancing Compounds in Carrots: Genetics, Genomics, and Molecular Breeding -- Metabolomics and Cytoplasmic Genomics of Allium -- Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) Nutritional and Health Promoting Phytochemicals -- Genome Designing for Nutritional Quality in Amaranthus -- Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.): Genetic Improvement for Nutraceutical Traits -- Sweetpotato: Nutritional Constituents and Genetic Composition -- Designing Dioscorea Genomes for Improved Nutritional and Pharmaceutical Properties |
| Summary |
The crop plants cater not only to our basic F5 (food, feed, fiber, fuel, and furniture) needs but also provide a number of nutraceuticals with potential nutritional, safety and therapeutic properties. Many crop plants provide an array of minerals, vitamins, and antioxidant-rich bioactive phytochemicals. Increasing incidences of chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes and HIV, and malnutrition necessitate global attention to health and nutrition security with equal emphasis to food security. This compendium compiles results of researches on biochemical, physiological and genetic mechanisms underlying biosynthesis of the health and nutrition related nutraceuticals. It also explores the precise breeding strategies for augmentation of their content and amelioration of their quality in crop plants under all commodity categories including cereals and millets, oilseeds, pulses, fruits and nuts, and vegetables. The compendium comprise 5 sections dedicated to these 5 commodity groups and presents enumeration on the concepts, strategies, tools and techniques of nutraceutomics. These sections include 50 chapters devoted to even number of major crop plants. These chapters present deliberations on the biochemistry and medicinal properties of the nutracuticals contained; genetic variation in their contents; classical genetics and breeding for their quantitative and qualitative improvement; tissue culture and genetic engineering for augmentation of productivity and quality; and sources of genes underlying their biosynthesis. They also include comprehensive enumeration on genetic mapping of the genes and QTLs controlling the contents and profile of the nutraceuticals and molecular breeding for their further improvement through marker assisted selection and backcross breeding tools. Prospects of post-genomic precise breeding strategies including genome-wide association mapping, genomic selection, allele mining, and genome editing are also discussed. This compendium fills the gap in academia, and research and development wings of the private sector industries interested in an array of subjects including genetics, genomics, tissue culture, genetic engineering, molecular breeding, genomics-assisted breeding, bioinformatics, biochemistry, physiology, pathology, entomology, pharmacognosy, IPR, etc., and will also facilitate understanding of the policy making agencies and people in the socio-economic domain and research sponsoring agencies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 21, 2023) |
| Subject |
Crops -- Genetic engineering.
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Crops -- Genetics.
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Functional foods.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kole, Chittaranjan, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789811941696 |
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9811941696 |
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