Amaranthus: A Promising Crop of Future

• Main Author: Das, Saubhik (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Plant physiology.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Plant Physiology.

This book serves the larger community of plant researchers working on the taxonomy, species delimitation, phylogeny, and biogeography of pseudo-cereals, with a special emphasis on amaranths. It also provides extensive information on the nutritive value of underutilized pseudo-cereals, the goal being...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Pseudo-cereals: an efficient food supplement
• 3. Amaranths: the crop of great prospect
• 4. Infrageneric classification of Amaranthus
• 5. Taxonomy and phylogeny of amaranths
• 6. Weed and Herbicide resistance
• 7. Distribution and maintenance of amaranth germplasm world-wide
• 8. Breeding of amaranth
• 9. Evolution of sexualty in Amaranthus
• 10. Cultvation of Amaranthus
• 11. Future prospects in amaranth research.