
Neglected and Underutilized Crops
Future Smart Food
- 1st Edition - November 29, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Muhammad Farooq, Kadambot H.M. Siddique
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 5 3 7 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 6 4 0 - 1
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Request a sales quoteNeglected and Underutilized Crops: Future Smart Food explores future food crops with climate resilience potential. Sections cover their botany, nutritional significance, global distribution, production technology, and tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses of neglected and underutilized crops. By simply changing species in a crop rotation system, the cycle of some pests and diseases is disrupted and probabilities of infestations are reduced. Finally, the book provides case studies that highlight where the adaptation of crops to local environments, especially with regard to climate change, have been successful.
These crops can help make agricultural production systems more resilient to climate change. Although a few books on neglected and underutilized crops are available, this comprehensive book covers the full scope of crop husbandry, nutritional significance and global distribution.
These crops can help make agricultural production systems more resilient to climate change. Although a few books on neglected and underutilized crops are available, this comprehensive book covers the full scope of crop husbandry, nutritional significance and global distribution.
- Contains consistent coverage of botany, nutritional significance, production technology, and tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses
- Presents case studies of success stories where adaptations in local environments have made a difference, especially with climate change
- Addresses key opportunities for improving global food security
Researchers, graduate students and academicians in fields of food security, sustainable agriculture, climate impact, farming systems, crop production and crop protection
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part I. Introduction
- Chapter 1. Neglected and underutilized crops and global food security
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Role of neglected and underutilized crops in global food security and biodiversity
- 3. Strategies to bring neglected and underutilized crops out of their niche role
- 4. Conclusions
- Part II. Cereal and pseudocereal crops
- Chapter 2. Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.)—a smart crop for food and nutritional security
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Origin, domestication, and distribution
- 3. Botanical description
- 4. Nutritional significance and end-uses
- 5. Quinoa genetic resources
- 6. Production technology
- 7. Processing and value addition
- 8. Case studies of success stories
- 9. Adaptation to climate change
- 10. Conclusion and future research
- Chapter 3. Cañahua (Chenopodium pallidicaule Aellen)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Botany
- 3. Nutritional significance
- 4. Global distribution
- 5. Production technology
- 6. Tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses
- 7. Case studies of success stories
- 8. Adaptation of cañahua in affected lands and soils
- 9. Limitations and future perspectives
- 10. Conclusions
- Chapter 4. Use of genomics and phenomics in grain amaranths for diversity assessment and breeding in the Americas
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Grain Amaranth diversity
- 3. Molecular markers used to assess grain Amaranth
- 4. Implications of diversity assessment
- 5. Implications for breeding
- 6. Future work
- 7. Final thoughts
- Chapter 5. Genetics, breeding, and genomics of Indian barnyard millet (Echinochloa frumentacea): status and perspectives
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Phylogeny, origin, and history
- 3. Botanical description and floral biology
- 4. Growth, development, and agronomic attributes
- 5. Nutrition composition and nutraceutical potential of barnyard millet
- 6. Adaptation to climate change and local environments
- 7. Intercropping systems
- 8. Bottlenecks in barnyard millet breeding
- 9. Major biotic and abiotic production constraints
- 10. Breeding advancements in barnyard millet
- 11. Modern breeding approaches for genetic improvement
- 12. Comparative genomics and synteny studies
- 13. Functional genomics approach for gene discovery
- 14. Conclusion and future outlook
- Chapter 6. Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Production technology
- 3. Conclusion and future prospects
- Chapter 7. Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench and F. tataricum Gaertn.)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Importance and uses
- 3. Botany, genetics, and global distribution
- 4. Nutritional values and significance
- 5. Gene pool, breeding, and biotechnology
- 6. Production technology
- 7. Adaptability to varying environments and climate change
- 8. Tolerance against biotic and abiotic stresses
- 9. Conservation
- 10. Success cases
- 11. Conclusion and prospects
- Chapter 8. Fonio millets: an underutilized crop with potential as a future smart cereal
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Botany of fonio
- 3. Soil, climate requirements, and ecological adaptability
- 4. Planting system
- 5. Weed management
- 6. Adaptation and tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress
- 7. Production and distribution
- 8. Nutritional and cultural utilizations
- 9. Production constraints and challenges
- 10. Germplasm characterization
- 11. Breeding and improvements
- 12. The future outlook for smart food production
- Chapter 9. Brown top millet (Brachiaria ramosa L. Stapf; Panicum ramosum L.)—a neglected and smart crop in fighting against hunger and malnutrition
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Origin, domestication, and global distribution
- 3. Botanical description
- 4. Habitat
- 5. Uses
- 6. Nutritional significance
- 7. Cultivation technology
- 8. Processing and value addition
- 9. Case studies of success stories
- 10. Future scope of research
- 11. Conclusion
- Chapter 10. Proso millet (Panicum miliaceum L.)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Domestication and global distribution
- 3. Taxonomy and botany
- 4. Reproductive biology and hybridization techniques
- 5. Artificial hybridization techniques
- 6. Production technology
- 7. Nutritional and health benefits
- 8. Plant genetic resource potential
- 9. Advances in crop improvement
- 10. Promotional efforts initiated in India
- 11. Future research needs
- 12. Future prospects and conclusion
- Chapter 11. Kodo Millet (Paspalum scorbiculatum L.)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Global Distribution
- 3. Taxonomy of Kodo Millet
- 4. Botany and floral biology of Kodo Millet
- 5. Advanced tools in crop improvement
- Chapter 12. Foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.): a model for small millets
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Botany of foxtail millet
- 3. Nutritional distribution of foxtail millet
- 4. Global distribution of foxtail millet
- 5. Crop improvement and production technologies
- 6. Dissecting climate-resilience traits
- 7. Case studies and success stories
- 8. Roadmap for similar studies in small millets
- 9. Conclusions and future perspectives
- Chapter 13. Triticale
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Plant morphology and development
- 3. Crop growth and productivity
- 4. Abiotic stress tolerance
- 5. Impact of fungal diseases
- 6. Grain quality
- 7. Concluding remarks
- Part III. Food legume crops
- Chapter 14. Kersting's groundnut (Macrotyloma geocarpum (Harms) Maréchal & Baudet): an African underutilized grain legume with high potential
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Utilization
- 3. Production of Kersting's groundnut
- 4. Conclusion
- Chapter 15. Lablab bean (Lablab purpureus L.)—An untapped resilient protein reservoir
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Conclusion
- Chapter 16. Pearl lupin (Lupinus mutabilis): a neglected high protein and oil content crop
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Taxonomy and distribution
- 3. Genetics and breeding
- 4. Adaptation to climate change
- 5. Tolerance to pests and diseases
- 6. Pearl lupin uses
- 7. Conclusions
- Chapter 17. Winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) DC.)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The plant
- 3. Edible components and their nutritional value
- 4. Plant growth, development, and its determinants
- 5. The crop
- 6. Crop improvement
- 7. Prospects
- 8. Conclusion
- Chapter 18. African yam bean (Sphenostylis stenocarpa hochst ex. A. Rich) Harms)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Origin and distribution of African yam bean
- 3. The plant—African yam bean
- 4. Production technology of African yam bean
- 5. Climate smart features of African yam bean
- 6. Importance of and utilization the primary products of African yam bean
- 7. Unveiled intraspecific diversity and nutritional potential in African yam bean: the success stories
- 8. Conclusion and way forward
- Chapter 19. Moth bean (Vigna aconitifolia (Jacq.) Marechal)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Botanical description
- 3. Global distribution
- 4. Climate and soil
- 5. Area, production, and productivity in India
- 6. Adoption constraints
- 7. Genetic variability and improved varieties
- 8. Physicochemical and functional properties
- 9. Production technology
- 10. Agro-morphological performance and climatic variability
- 11. Disease, pest, and weed management
- 12. Insect pests and their management
- 13. Nutritional significance
- 14. Processing and use of moth bean
- 15. Research trends
- 16. Success stories
- 17. Conclusion
- Chapter 20. Adzuki bean [Vigna angularis (willd.) Ohwi & Ohashi]
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Botanical and morphology description
- 3. Nutritional significance
- 4. Health benefits
- 5. Global distribution
- 6. Production technology
- 7. Tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses
- 8. Case studies of success stories
- 9. Adaptation to local environments especially to climate change
- 10. Crop biodiversity: adaptation, preservation, and utilization
- Chapter 21. Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The plant
- 3. Nutritional density
- 4. Climate resilience
- 5. Economic viability
- 6. Local availability and adaptability
- 7. Prospects: toward a different vision for African agriculture
- 8. Conclusion
- Chapter 22. Progress and opportunities on Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea [L.] Verdc.): genetic improvement and product development
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Production status, germplasm collection, and evaluation
- 3. Seed nutritional composition and utilization
- 4. Response of Bambara groundnut to optimized agronomic management
- 5. Prebreeding of Bambara groundnut
- 6. Participatory rural appraisal
- 7. Research needs in Bambara groundnut
- Chapter 23. Rice bean (Vigna umbellata): a promising legume with unexplored potential
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Underutilized crops as future smart foods for zero hunger
- 3. Ricebean—a promising but unexplored legume
- 4. Ricebean production technology
- 5. Nutritional potential of ricebean
- 6. Nutraceutical properties of ricebean
- 7. Nutraceutical uses of ricebean in traditional medicinal system
- 8. Processing techniques for managing antinutritional factors in ricebean
- 9. Ricebean in global cuisine and value addition
- 10. Ricebean as a source of candidate genes for insect-pest resistance
- 11. Prospects of ricebean in food and nutritional security
- 12. Conclusion
- Part IV. Oil seeds
- Chapter 24. Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Safflower uses
- 3. Global distribution
- 4. Tolerance to abiotic and biotic stresses
- 5. Environmental adaptation
- 6. Safflower production
- 7. Economics of safflower production
- 8. Conclusion
- Chapter 25. Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Botany and origin
- 3. Nutritional significance
- 4. Production technology
- 5. Adaptation to climate change
- 6. Case studies
- 7. Conclusion
- Chapter 26. Jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis): an oil-producing cash crop
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Origin and distribution
- 3. Abiotic and biotic stress tolerance
- 4. Botanical description
- 5. Nutritional significance
- 6. Jojoba oil and derivatives
- 7. Commercial importance of jojoba plant
- 8. Advances in jojoba oil research
- 9. Genetic improvement
- 10. Success stories of jojoba
- 11. Struggles and future aspects
- 12. Conclusion
- Chapter 27. Camelina sativa (Cranz.) from minor crop to potential breakthrough
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Origin and global distribution
- 3. Botany and biology
- 4. Agronomy: agronomic techniques and production technology
- 5. Uses: nutritional significance and applications in green chemistry
- 6. Case studies
- Fundings
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 29, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 836
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323905374
- eBook ISBN: 9780323906401
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Muhammad Farooq
Professor Muhammad Farooq is a distinguished academician currently serving as Professor and Head of the Department of Plant Sciences at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, Oman. He also holds concurrent positions as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia (since 2011) and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Dankook University, South Korea (since 2013). His research, on crop water relations and adaptation to dryland environments, has encompassed providing fundamental understanding of the response of crops to abiotic stresses.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, OmanKS
Kadambot H.M. Siddique
Kadambot H.M. Siddique works in the Centre for Legumes in Mediterr at University of Western Australia in Crawley, Australia.
Affiliations and expertise
Centre for Legumes in Mediterr, University of Western Australia, Crawley, AustraliaRead Neglected and Underutilized Crops on ScienceDirect