Quinoa: botany, production and uses
Quinoa: botany, production and uses [electronic resource]
Edited by A. Bhargava, S. Srivastava.
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- Wallingford UK CABI 2013
- 247pp.;
- Botany, Production and Uses .
- Botany, Production and Uses .
* Quinoa is an invaluable crop, highlighted by the FAO as one of the world’s main crops for future food security* Timely publication – The year 2013 has been declared The International Year of the Quinoa"" (IYQ), recognizing the Andean indigenous peoples, who have maintained, controlled, protected and preserved quinoa as food for present and future generations thanks to their traditional knowledge and practices of living well in harmony with mother earth and nature.* Covers the history, phylogeny and systematics, botany and agrotechnology
9781780642277
10.1079/9781780642260.0000 doi
quinoa cytotaxonomy pests plant pathogens crop management nutritional value taxonomy Caryophyllales nutritive value plants geographical distribution plant diseases antinutritional factors quality for nutrition angiosperms systematics morphotaxonomy genetic improvement chemical constituents of plants Amaranthaceae cultivation Spermatophyta pathogens plant morphology phytopathogens eudicots Chenopodium molecular taxonomy crop production plant composition plant pests Chenopodium quinoa chemical composition eukaryotes
* Quinoa is an invaluable crop, highlighted by the FAO as one of the world’s main crops for future food security* Timely publication – The year 2013 has been declared The International Year of the Quinoa"" (IYQ), recognizing the Andean indigenous peoples, who have maintained, controlled, protected and preserved quinoa as food for present and future generations thanks to their traditional knowledge and practices of living well in harmony with mother earth and nature.* Covers the history, phylogeny and systematics, botany and agrotechnology
9781780642277
10.1079/9781780642260.0000 doi
quinoa cytotaxonomy pests plant pathogens crop management nutritional value taxonomy Caryophyllales nutritive value plants geographical distribution plant diseases antinutritional factors quality for nutrition angiosperms systematics morphotaxonomy genetic improvement chemical constituents of plants Amaranthaceae cultivation Spermatophyta pathogens plant morphology phytopathogens eudicots Chenopodium molecular taxonomy crop production plant composition plant pests Chenopodium quinoa chemical composition eukaryotes