Current Applications, Approaches and Potential Perspectives for Hemp (eBook, ePUB)

Crop Management, Industrial Usages, and Functional Purposes
Redaktion: Garcia Tejero, Ivan Francisco; Duran Zuazo, Victor Hugo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Current Applications, Approaches and Potential Perspectives for Hemp: Crop Management, Industrial Usages, and Functional Purposes presents the latest in the rapidly growing interest for hemp cultivation and its sustainable applications for humans. This book gathers research and review chapters that analyze research trends and current agricultural issues. It then proposes alternative solutions and describes current and future applications for this raw material. This book will be extremely beneficial for researchers, academics, policymakers, technicians and other stakeholders interested in this crop development and its applications.

Cannabis sativa is considered as a proper and alternative crop because of its wide range of applications and marketability, especially when developed for biomedical applications. Thus, many producers and technicians are trying to find relevant information about this crop development and usages in order to be considered viable in the future.

• Presents research and review chapters that analyze current trends and agricultural issues
• Details the growing and diverse applications for hemp fibers, seed grain and essential oils due to its pharmacologically beneficial properties
• Describes the current and future applications for this raw material

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 612
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780323886284
• Artikelnr.: 65650182

Inhaltsangabe

SECTION 1 Agronomical purposes for fibre and biomedical cultivars
1. Suitability and opportunities of Cannabis sativa L. as alternative crop under water scarcity scenarios
2. Linking agronomical practices for Cannabis sativa L. production and its potential usages: fibre, seeds, essential oils and cannabinoids production
3. Agronomical strategies to improve the cannabinoids biosynthesis: Optimizing the diiferent metabolic pathways
4. Hemp breeding and genetics for cannabinoid production
5. Assessment of hemp crop adaptation and economic sustainability through modelling and field trials

SECTION 2 Current and Potential applications of hemp products: Fibre, seeds, and essential oils
6. Role of Cannabis sativa L. in energy production: residues as a potential lignocellulosic biomass in anaerobic digestion plants
7. Hemp essential oil: an innovative product with potential applications on an industrial level
8. New chemical insights into polyphenols in by-products and wastes from industrial hemp processing
9. Hemp application in green building
10. Slow pyrolysis processing of industrial hemp by-products

SECTION 3 Biomedical and nutritional applications of hemp and its by-products: Strength, weakness and challenges
11. The Customer's Preference In Light Cannabis: An Italian Perspective
12. Current and future applications for hemp essential oils: a review
13. Hemp seed products and by products: A mine of bioactive compounds to improve functionality of fermented foods
14. Therapeutic uses of Cannabis sativa L. Current state and future perspectives
15. By products of hemp from a nutritional point of view: New perspectives and opportunities
16. An overview on sensory evaluation, volatile compounds, and legal regulations of {i