
Quinoa
Botany, Production and Uses
CABI Publishing
Published on 23. September 2013
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-1-78064-226-0 (ISBN)
Description
* Quinoa is an invaluable crop, highlighted by the FAO as one of the world's main crops for future food security * Timely publication - The year 2013 has been declared "The International Year of the Quinoa" (IYQ), recognizing the Andean indigenous peoples, who have maintained, controlled, protected and preserved quinoa as food for present and future generations thanks to their traditional knowledge and practices of living well in harmony with mother earth and nature. * Covers the history, phylogeny and systematics, botany and agrotechnology
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wallingford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 173 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78064-226-0 (9781780642260)
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09/2013
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Persons
Atul Bhargava is senior lecturer at Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, India Shilpi Srivastava is lecturer at Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, India
Author
Amity University Uttar Pradesh [Lucknow Campus], India
Amity University Uttar Pradesh [Lucknow Campus], India
Contributions
CIRAD, France
Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Aridas (CEAZA), Chile
Universidad Arturo Prat., Chile
Content
1: Preface PART I: Introduction and History 2: Introduction 3: Historical Perspectives and Domestication 4: Distribution PART II: Phylogeny and Systematics 5: Taxonomy 6: Cytology and Genome Size PART III: Botany and Agrotechnology 7: Botany 8: Crop Production and Management 9: Stress Tolerance 10: Diseases and Pests 11: Breeding 12: Molecular Studies PART IV: Qualitative Aspects, Economics and Marketing 13: Chemistry 14: Saponins 15: Transparency from Production to Consumption: New Challenges for the Quinoa Market Chain