Quinoa : botany, production and uses / / Atul Bhargava and Shilpi Srivastava

• Autore: Bhargava Atul <1975->
• Pubblicazione: Wallingford, Oxfordshire ; ; Boston : , : CABI, , [2013]; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 p.)
• Disciplina: 664.7
• Soggetto topico: Quinoa; Goosefoots
• Altri autori: SrivastavaShilpi
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""PART I: INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Historical Perspectives and Domestication""; ""3. Distribution""; ""PART II: PHYLOGENY AND SYSTEMATICS""; ""4. Taxonomy""; ""5. Cytology and Genome Size""; ""PART III: BOTANY AND AGROTECHNOLOGY""; ""6. Botany""; ""7. Crop Production and Management""; ""8. Stress Tolerance""; ""9. Diseases and Pests""; ""10. Breeding""; ""11. Molecular Studies""; ""PART IV: QUALITATIVE ASPECTS, ECONOMICS AND MARKETING""; ""12. Chemistry""; ""13. Saponins"" ; ""14. Transparency from Production to Consumption: New Challenges for the Quinoa Market Chain""""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""W""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Quinoa
• ISBN: 1-78924-442-0; 1-78064-227-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910627295703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II