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Current Applications, Approaches and Potential Perspectives for Hemp

Crop Management, Industrial Usages, and Functional Purposes

  • 1st Edition - September 7, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Ivan Francisco Garcia Tejero, Victor Hugo Duran Zuazo
  • Language: English

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Current Applications, Approaches and Potential Perspectives for Hemp: Crop Management, Industrial Usages, and Functional Purposes presents the latest in the rapidly growing interest for hemp cultivation and its sustainable applications for humans. This book gathers research and review chapters that analyze research trends and current agricultural issues. It then proposes alternative solutions and describes current and future applications for this raw material. This book will be extremely beneficial for researchers, academics, policymakers, technicians and other stakeholders interested in this crop development and its applications.

Cannabis sativa is considered as a proper and alternative crop because of its wide range of applications and marketability, especially when developed for biomedical applications. Thus, many producers and technicians are trying to find relevant information about this crop development and usages in order to be considered viable in the future.

Key features

  • Presents research and review chapters that analyze current trends and agricultural issues
  • Details the growing and diverse applications for hemp fibers, seed grain and essential oils due to its pharmacologically beneficial properties
  • Describes the current and future applications for this raw material

Readership

Researchers, academic and policy makers in the field of Cannabis Sativa L and crop development

Table of contents

SECTION 1 Agronomical purposes for fibre and biomedical cultivars

1. Suitability and opportunities of Cannabis sativa L. as alternative crop under water scarcity scenarios
Victor Hugo Duran Zuazo, Belén Cárceles, Ivan García-Tejero, Salvatore Casano

2. Linking agronomical practices for Cannabis sativa L. production and its potential usages: fibre, seeds, essential oils and cannabinoids production
Ivan García-Tejero, Victor Hugo Duran Zuazo, Belén Cárceles, Salvatore Casano

3. Agronomical strategies to improve the cannabinoids biosynthesis: Optimizing the diiferent metabolic pathways
Pedro Pérez-Bermúdez, Alex Rognoni Martínez

4. Hemp breeding and genetics for cannabinoid production
Ryan Lynch

5. Assessment of hemp crop adaptation and economic sustainability through modelling and field trials
Francesco Danuso

SECTION 2 Current and Potential applications of hemp products: Fibre, seeds, and essential oils

6. Role of Cannabis sativa L. in energy production: residues as a potential lignocellulosic biomass in anaerobic digestion plants
Emanuela Melis

7. Hemp essential oil: an innovative product with potential applications on an industrial level
Filippo Maggi

8. New chemical insights into polyphenols in by-products and wastes from industrial hemp processing
Severina Pacifico

9. Hemp application in green building
Arthur Hellouin

10. Slow pyrolysis processing of industrial hemp by-products
Laura Tomppo

SECTION 3 Biomedical and nutritional applications of hemp and its by-products: Strength, weakness and challenges

11. The Customer's Preference In Light Cannabis: An Italian Perspective
Roberto Mancinelli

12. Current and future applications for hemp essential oils: a review
Belén Cárceles, Victor Hugo Duran Zuazo, Ivan García-Tejero

13. Hemp seed products and by products: A mine of bioactive compounds to improve functionality of fermented foods
Lorenzo Nissen

14. Therapeutic uses of Cannabis sativa L. Current state and future perspectives
Ana Isabel Fraguas Sánchez

15. By products of hemp from a nutritional point of view: New perspectives and opportunities
Antoni Szumny, Anna Żołnierczyk

16. An overview on sensory evaluation, volatile compounds, and legal regulations of {i

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 7, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

IG

Ivan Francisco Garcia Tejero

Iván Francisco García-Tejero started his research activity in 2005, in the Andalusian Institute of Teaching and Agricultural research, obtaining a PhD degree in 2010. He was then employed in this same institution for different projects related to the irrigation water management, achieving a Post-Doc contract in 2012 for 5 years. Once finished, he continued working in other research projects for this same institution, and finally, got the titular research position in 2019, within the “Agriculture and Environment” department and the research line “Water Use Efficiency”. During his career as researcher he has acquired a wide experience about the water use efficiency in Mediterranean woody crops, such as citrus, almonds or olives. Moreover, he has developed significant works relayed to conservation agriculture practices in rainfed systems by means direct drill strategies or plant covers management. Moreover, he has been research coordinator of eight projects related to the introduction of Cannabis sativa L. for biomedical purposes.
Affiliations and expertise
Researcher, Andalusian Institute of Training and Agricultural Research, Seville, Spain

VD

Victor Hugo Duran Zuazo

Víctor Hugo Durán Zuazo has participated as coordinator in research projects in the area of natural resources at regional, national and EU level. He is the head of the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Soil, Water & Biodiversity in Agricultural Systems CUSABA (AGR-144). He deals with land- and water-management interventions in Mediterranean agroforestry systems, with the aim of preventing, reducing or recovering losses of soil, water, and biodiversity. In terms of knowledge and research, the focus is on sustainable land management, specifically: land-degradation processes; conservation measures and interventions at both field and watershed scale; and the harmony of sustainable management practices that encourage productivity, climate-change mitigation, soil quality, and water-use efficiency. Agricultural Engineering at National Agricultural University Ukraine, 1993; Doctor, University of Almeria Spain, 2001; Post-doc researcher at Wageningen University, Netherlands, 2003—2004; at National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory (NSERL), Agricultural Research Service USDA-ARS-MWA, West Lafayette IN USA, 2007-2008; staff researcher at IFAPA Centro “Las Torres-Tomejil” since 2009.
Affiliations and expertise
IFAPA Centro "Las Torres-Tomejil" Ctra

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