Millets and Other Potential Crops

Ensuring Climate Resilience and Nutritional Security
Herausgeber: Pradhan, Jyostnarani; Dash, Manasi; Chandra Samal, Kailash; Prakash Sahoo, Jyoti

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the basic principles and practices of millets and other potential crops towards climate resilience and nutritional security. It discuses the role of millets in sustainable agriculture, the use of foxtail millet, exotic fruits in India, and climate-resilient crops.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 210mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032873008
• ISBN-10: 1032873000
• Artikelnr.: 70943432

Autorenporträt

Jyostnarani Pradhan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agriculture University, Bihar, India. She has contributed to many research projects as P.I. and Co-I. and has guided 5 M.Sc.(Plant Physiology) students as Major Advisor. She is presently working on stress physiology, secondary metabolites and seed physiology in various crops. Jyoti Prakash Sahoo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Agriculture and Allied Sciences, C.V. Raman Global University, Bhubaneswar, India. He has authored numerous research and review articles in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Science. He has also been recipient of the 'Foxcules India Prime Quality Education Award - 2021' for his contribution towards education. Kailash Chandra Samal is Professor and Head, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, India. He specialises in Plant Molecular Biology, Plant Tissue culture, Microbial technology, DNA fingerprinting, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. He has also developed cost-efficient protocols for largescale micropropagation of several plant species, including banana, ginger, turmeric, sugarcane, stevia and sarpagnadha etc. Manasi Dash serves as Faculty in the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding and obtained her Master's and Ph.D. in Plant Breeding and Genetics from OUAT in the year 1996 and 2005 respectively. She holds the credit of releasing one Sesame variety "Kalinga Sesame-3-1" and has also been instrumental in carrying out externally funded project from DBT Bio-Care, Govt. of India and RKVY, Govt. of Odisha.

Inhaltsangabe

Message (Prof. Pravat Kumar Roul)
Message (Dr. Dilip Kumar Dash)
Message (Dr. Somnath Roy Chowdhury)
Preface
About the Editors
1. International Year of Millets-Unleashing its Potential in Making a
Sustainable World
2. Millets: Super Food for Nutrition Security and Livelihood Improvement
3. Climate Change and Millets: A Global Food Security for an Improving
Livelihood
4. The Vital Role of Millets in Sustainable Agriculture: Ensuring Food
Security and Enhancing Environmental Sustainability
5. Role of Minor Millets in the Context of Climate Change and Genomic
Resources
6. Millets in Organic Agricultural System
7. Breeding for Genetic Improvement of Millets
8. Millets: A Biotechnological Perspective
9. Finger Millet: A Sustainable Approach for Nutritional Security and its
Biofortification
10. Foxtail Millet: Origin, Production, Nutritional Benefits and Medicinal
Use
11. Kodo Millet (Paspalum scrobiculatum) - A Nutri-rich Millet Crop:
Nutritional Composition, Health Benefits and Food Product Developments
12. Millets: Its Diseases and Management
13. Economic Importance of Major Millet Pests and their Management
Techniques
14. Insect Pests of Major Millets and Integrated Strategies for their
Management
15. Recent Approaches for Management of Insect Disease Problems in Pearl
Millet
16. Exotic Fruits in India: Production, Nutritional Benefits and Medicinal
Properties
17. Flourishing the Climate Resilient Fruit Crops to Ensure Global Food and
Nutritional Security
18. Vegetables: A Food to Ensure Economic and Dietary Security
19. Bioactive Compounds in Jamun (Syzygium cumini L.) Ensuring Nutritional
Security
20. Meet the Incredible, the Unsung Heroes of Crops in Alleviating Iron
Deficiency Anemia
21. Importance of Millets for Enhancement of Calcium Content and Thickness
in Eggshell of Granivorous Birds
22. Climate Change Resilient through Modern Farming in Vegetable
Cultivation