Production and Processing of Food Crops for Value Addition: Technology and Genetic Options

Contents: I. Crop Improvement: 1. Prediction of Fusarium head blight and deoxynivalenol content in winter wheat with regression based learning algorithms/S. Landschoot, K. Audenaert, W. Waegeman, B. De Baets and G. Haesaert. 2. Spot blotch disease of wheat a disease of global concern in warm and humid areas/Virender Singh, Nitika Sandhu, Sonia Sheoran, Gyanendra Singh, Apurba Kumar Chowdhury. 3. Comparative input use efficiency in triticale and wheat/Akshay Kumar Vats, Nabin Bhusal, S.s. Dhanda nd R.K. Behl. 4. Perspectives of drought tolerance in wheat: morpho-physiological, biochemical and molecular approaches/Vikender Kaur, Rashmi Yadav,T.P. Singh, Jyoti Kumari and Anita Kumari. 5. Root phonemics: an important route to rice crop improvement/Nitika Sandhu and Virender  Singh. 6. Strategies to exploit heterosis in sunflower in India/R.K. Sheoran and Subhash Chander. 7. Taro Colocasia esculenta: a potential tropical tuber and its applications/Pragati Kaushal and H.K. Sharma. 8. Frutan accumulation in plant in vitro culture/Matvieieva Nadiia. 9. Cloning, expression and characterization of sorbitol-6 phosphate dehydrogenase gene of rice (Oryza Sativa)/Rajbala Yadav, Mannar R. Maurya and Ramasre Prasad. II. Nutrition and quality aspects: 10. Wheat grain quality determinants for improved asian noodles/Udhaya Kannan, Rishi K. Behl and Ravindra N. Chibbar. 11. Novel results in triticale utilization: technological and nutritional aspects/L. Bona, e. Acs, C. Lantos, J. Pauk, S. Tomoskozi and B. Lango. 12. Nutritional composition of barley: comparative analysis with wheat and Chickpea/Alka Vasan and Manisha Mani. 13. Comparative studies on physic-chemical and optical properties of apple/K. Prasad, S.Suman, J.A. Sheikh, V.P. Singh and R.K. Sharma. 14. Problems of malnutrition and their solutions/Nupur Sobti Sharma. III. Food Processing: 15. Post harvest processing and consumption of Teff (Eragrostif tef)/Agdew Bekle, K.W. Giorgis and R.K. Behl. 16. Quality characteristics of mustard powder as affected by blanching and dehydration temperature/Ankita and K. Prasad. 17. Value added noodles using faba beans (Vicia faba) protein concentrates and protein isolates/Arti Chauhan, Poonam and Rajbala Grewal. 18. Incorporation of buttermilk in bread making/Jyoti Bala. Dheer Singh, Shubhang Nigam and Archana. 19. Development and characterization of shelf stable quick cooking green peas/Y. Singh and K. Prasad. 20. Osmotic dehydration kinetics of sand pear slices (Pyrus pyrifolia) in sucrose solution/Poonam and Bahadur Singh Hathan….IV. Resource management and agro-technology.

Improving inherent potential of crops for increased natural and applied inputs use efficiency, stress tolerance and favourable proximate composition changes through genetic manipulations is one of the several approaches to sustain high productivity along with high quality and nutritive value in different agro-ecological conditions to increase the global per capita food supply and hence for reducing hunger and nutrition insecurity. The demand for healthy foods and food supplements are on rise. Even in countries with high malnutrition and hunger, around 25-30 per cent of food may be wasted due to inefficient harvesting and storage. The amounts of post harvest losses of fresh produce are huge in developing countries and this also adds up t the growing problem of food insecurity.

This book “Production and Processing of Food Crops for Value Addition: technology and Genetic Options” brings together a good collection of contributions on various basic and applied aspects of crop improvement for tolerance to abiotic and biotic stresses, accumulation of favourable components, heterosis, unconventional crops; Nutrition and quality aspects of food products from wheat, triticale, apple and problems due to nutrition deficiency, food processing covering post harvest processing for development of value added products for instant uses and enhancing shelf life of products and textural and nutritional changes in value added products and Resource Management and Agro-technology for use of natural resources for food, energy, enhancing food production through external stimuli, vermicompost, use of bioinformatics, underground water quality role of extension services and women towards food security etc.

This book will serve useful purpose for the researchers and students engaged in multidisciplinary research and development projects.