Post-Harvest Technology and Value Addition in Cereals, Pulses and Oilseeds : Proceedings of the International Conference, November 27-30, 2006, Kanpur, India

Contents: Foreword. Message. Preface. 1. Genomics, comparative genomics and designer plant breeding: a new Green Revolution in the making/Rajinder S. Ranu. 2. Engineering value-added traits in cereal crops/Prem P. Jauhar, Seedhabadee Ganeshan and Ravindra N. Chibbar. 3. Plant microarray: the basics/Alaka Srivastava. 4. Correlation of Peptide Conformation and Insecticidal activity of Bauhinia derivated compounds on Callosobruchus maculatus development/R.A. Silva Lucca, J.T. Sumikawa, A. Miranda and M.L.V. Oliva. 5. Application of biotechnological approaches for crop improvement/K.R. Koundal. 6. Biotechnological approaches for post-harvest quality improvement and value addition/K.C. Bansal, Preeti Kaur, Geeta Prakash, Monika Dalal, Rajendra Singh, V. Chinnusamy and D.V.K. Samuel. 7. Enhancement of nutritional quality of cereals using biotechnological options/P.K. Agrawal and H.S. Gupta. 8. Effect of cultivar and environment on quality characteristics of Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)/Shantha Nagarajan, S. Tripathi, G.P. Singh and H.B. Chaudhary. 9. Biochemical characterisation of fortified food using traditional Indian flours/Jyoti D. Vora and Tania Y. Moses. 10. Oligosaccharide composition of certain underutilized legume seeds and their removal by a-Galactosidase Enzyme Treatment/M. Pugalenthi and V. Vadivel. 11. Physico-chemical and cookability traits of Velvet Bean, an underutilized legume/P. Gurumoorthi and K. Janardhanan. 12. Biological evaluation of protein quality of raw and processed seeds of an underutilized legume Entada scandens Benth/V. Vadivel and M. Pugalenthi. 13. Soybean scenario and value added products in India/G.S. Chauhan. 14. Potential of Soybean (Glycine Max) in functional foods and nutraceuticals/Dhan Prakash. 15. Analysis of antinutritional profiles of an underutilized legume Mucuna pruriens var. utilis and their removal by various processing methods/M. Pugalenthi and V. Vadivel. 16. Flax bio-village concept for value addition to farmers/Mahabaleshwar Hegde and Shahida Khan. 17. Breeding for designer oils: concepts and methods/S.P. Singh and R. Ramesh Kumar. 18. Jatropha curcas--a fuel for the future/Munish Kumar, A.P. Singh, Ekhlaq Haider and Kamlesh Kumar. 19. Ethanol production from Tapioca starch by co-immobilized system of bacterial Glucoamylase and the Yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus/Anupma Srivastava and Rita Kar. Recommendations. 

"Post-Harvest Technology and Value Addition is considered as a major initiative in bringing economic empowerment of farming community. It includes various aspects such as processing, preservation, packaging, marketing and utilization. A variety of value added products developed as a result of processing technologies would not only help in improving the nutrition and health of our people but would help in accelerating their export as well. It is in this context that the Indian society of Agricultural biochemists and C.S. Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur, organized an International Conference on Post-Harvest Technology and Value Addition in Cereals, Pulses and Oilseeds in which papers on aspects of the use of biotechnology for value addition in crops, advances in post-harvest technology and value addition in cereals and pulses and improvement of edible oils and on other related processing technologies were presented and discussed.

All the important papers presented during the Conference have been compiled in this publication. The publication will benefit the research scholars, scientists, technologists, industrialists and all others engaged in research and development in post-harvest technology and value addition."