Amaranthus: A Promising Crop of Future
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 p
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Amaranthus: A Promising Crop of Future
Amaranthus: A Promising Crop of Future
Saubhik Das
Amaranthus: A Promising Crop of Future
Saubhik Das Department of Botany Taki Government College West Bengal, India
ISBN 978-981-10-1468-0 ISBN 978-981-10-1469-7 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-1469-7
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Preface
Pseudocereals are promising crops for coming decades keeping in view the global food security. Amaranths are a leading group of plants among the pseudocereals that have the great potentiality to prevent malnutrition especially in the low-income food-deficient countries. Though its cultivation and use as food grains have great antiquity, but later its cultivation was ignored by a larger section of people of the world. It lagged behind the conventional cereal crops in spite of being nutritionally very much competitive to those. In the last few decades, the nutritive potentialities and other unique features of amaranths have been rediscovered in different corners of the world. Research done so far on amaranths has surfaced its unique and unparallel nutritive value, wide adaptability, herbicide resistance property and vast germplasm variability. Its germplasm variability has opened up a new avenue to evolve much improved varieties or cultivars. Little efforts have been devoted to improve its genetic background by applying biotechnological methods. But that yielded significant achievements. Keeping in view its tremendous potentiality to become a super crop of coming decades, much more attention is to be given to it especially when the conventional crops are overburdened with a task to feed the huge world population. To increase the food production at a global level and at a sustai
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