Ricebean [electronic resource] : Exploiting the Nutritional Potential of an Underutilized Legume /
Katoch, Rajan.author.
This book presents valuable research and advances in technologies related to ricebean cultivation production and utilization. Focusing on ricebean as a possible solution to the problems of nutritional insecurity and growing populations in developing countries, it provides comprehensive insights into its nutritional significance as an alternative food legume and discusses its utilization to prevent potential food calamities. This book is a valuable resource for food scientists and technologists, agricultural scientists, nutritionists and researchers.
This book presents valuable research and advances in technologies related to ricebean cultivation production and utilization. Focusing on ricebean as a possible solution to the problems of nutritional insecurity and growing populations in developing countries, it provides comprehensive insights into its nutritional significance as an alternative food legume and discusses its utilization to prevent potential food calamities. This book is a valuable resource for food scientists and technologists, agricultural scientists, nutritionists and researchers.
Chapter 1. Underutilized crops: An overview. Chapter 2. Status of research on underutilized crops for food security -- Chapter 3. Prospects of underutilized crops in combating poverty, malnutrition, and hunger -- Chapter 4. Constraints in research, promotion and utilization of underutilized crops -- Chapter 5. Rice bean- a potential underutilized legume -- Chapter 6. Rice bean agronomy -- Chapter 7. Morpho-physiological and productivity attributes of rice bean -- Chapter 8. Nutritional potential of ricebean -- Chapter 9. Incrimnating factors of rice bean -- Chapter 10. Tackling incriminating/anti nutritional factors in rice bean -- Chapter 11. Rice bean foliage as fodder -- Chapter 12. Rice bean- a soil enricher -- Chapter 13. Effect of fertilizers on rice bean productivity and quality -- Chapter 14. Insect pest resistance factors in rice bean -- Chapter 15. Prospect of utilizing resistance factors from underutilized crops in susceptible crops -- Chapter 16. Nutraceutical potential of rice bean -- Chapter 17. Value added products from rice bean -- Chapter 18. Common diseases and insects of rice bean -- Chapter 19. Strategies for the promotion of rice bean as a potential pulse -- Chapter 20. Conclusion and future prospects.
Food-Biotechnology.
Plant science.
Botany.
Agriculture.
Plant biochemistry.
Medicine.
Food Science.
Plant Sciences.
Agriculture.
Plant Biochemistry.
Biomedicine, general.