Maize: Nutrition Dynamics and Novel Uses

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Chaudhary, Dharam Paul (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Kumar, Sandeep (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Langyan, Sapna (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Food > Biotechnology.; Agriculture.; Plant biochemistry.; Proteins.; Climate change.; Life Sciences.; Plant Biochemistry.; Protein Science.; Climate Change.; Food Science.

Maize is a globally important crop mainly utilized as feed, food and raw material for diverse industrial applications. Among cereals, it occupies third place after rice and wheat and is a staple food for a large segment of population worldwide particularly in the Asian as well as African countries....

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Section A: Introductory chapter
• 1. Nutritive value of maize: Improvements, applications and constraints
• Section B: Protein quality of maize
• 2 Breeding challenges and perspectives in developing and promoting quality protein maize germplasm
• 3 Maize protein quality and its improvement- development of quality protein maize (QPM) in India
• 4 Molecular interventions for enhancing the protein quality of maize
• Section C: Nutritional quality of maize
• 5 Maize: Grain structure, composition, milling and starch characteristics
• 6 Oil improvement in maize: potential and prospects
• 7.Maize carotenoid composition and biofortification for provitamin a activity
• Section D: Biotic and abiotic stresses in maize
• 8 Insect pests and their management: current status and future need of research in quality maize
• 9. Physiological response of maize under rising atmospheric CO2 and temperature
• Section E: Value addition in maize
• 10 Maize utilization in food bioprocessing: An overview
• 11 Maize malting: Retrospect and prospect
• 12. Value addition in maize
• 13. Fodder quality of maize: its preservation.