1st Edition

Quality Improvement in Field Crops

By Lakhwinder S Randhawa Copyright 2002
446 Pages
by CRC Press

431 Pages
by CRC Press

431 Pages
by CRC Press

Learn to identify, modify, and manipulate the genes controlling key quality traits in field crops! This informative book provides state-of-the-art information on improving nutritional quality as well as yield volume in field crops such as wheat, maize, rice, barley, oats, lentils, pigeon peas, soybeans, cool season legumes, and crops whose seeds are used to make oils. With contributions from... Read more
  • Preface
  • Quality (End-Use) Improvement in Wheat: Compositional, Genetic, and Environmental Factors
  • Breeding Wheat for Improved Milling and Baking Quality
  • Agronomic Practices Influence Maize Grain Quality
  • Making Rice a Perfect Food: Turning Dreams into Reality
  • Genetic Control of Quantitative Grain and Malt Quality Traits in Barley
  • Quality Improvement in Oat
  • Improving the Nutritional Value of Cool Season Food Legumes
  • Improved Quality of Lentil Using Molecular Marker Technology
  • Pigeonpea Nutrition and Its Improvement
  • Legume Forage Quality
  • Sulfur Metabolism and Protein Quality of Soybean
  • Breeding Oilseed Crops for Improved Oil Quality
  • Breeding for Improved Oil Quality in Brassica Oilseed Species
  • Quality Improvement of Upland Cotton (Gossypium hirsutm L.)
  • Sugarbeet Quality Improvement
  • Index
  • Reference Notes Included

Biography

Lakhwinder S Randhawa