Millets are popularly known as "nutri-cereals" due to their richness in calcium, dietary fiber, polyphenol, vitamins, and protein content. Millet crops have the potential to aid in food security efforts in regions where natural and manmade causes are deteriorating land resources. Nutriomics of Millet Crops emphasizes the importance of nutriomics of millet crops in the context of universal health, highlighting biotechnological advancements offering enrichment of the nutritional value of millets. Millet crops have potential to be a staple crop demonstrating an economically feasible approach to combat micronutrient malnutrition.
Features
- Presents comprehensive studies on health-promoting nutritional components of millets
- Provides enumeration on molecular breeding strategies for improvement of millet nutraceuticals
- Discusses genomics-assisted breeding for enhancement of nutritional quality in millets
- Includes information related to sensory and biofortification of millet-based foods
By assessing the relevance of millets in sustainable global agroecosystems due to their nutritional and agronomic attributes, the United Nations celebrated 2023 as the "International Year of Millets." This book complements this effort and is useful to researchers and policy planners working across the disciplines of plant breeding. Nutriomics of Millet Crops also encourages young researchers to explore this promising field.
About the Author: Ramesh Namdeo Pudake is Assistant Professor in Amity University Uttar Pradesh and is a PhD in Crop Genetics and Breeding from China Agricultural University, Beijing, PRC. After his PhD he is engaged in research in a range of organisms but with a focus on crop plant genomics. He has also worked at Iowa State University Ames, IA, USA on host pathogen interaction and gene mapping. Currently he is focusing on research on different application genomics in plant-microbes interaction. Dr. Pudake has published more than 40 research publications, 4 book, 20 book chapters, and has one scholarship award from Chinese Government. He is also an expert reviewer for several journals of repute.
Chittaranjan Kole is an internationally reputed scientist with an illustrious professional career of spanning over thirty-five years and original contributions in the fields of plant genomics, biotechnology and molecular breeding leading to the publication of more than 170 quality research articles and reviews. He has edited over 100 books for the leading publishers of the world. His scientific contributions and editing acumen have been appreciated by seven Nobel Laureates including Profs. Norman Borlaug, Arthur Kornberg, Werner Arber, Phillip Sharp, Günter Blobel, Lee Hartwell, and Roger Kornberg. He has been honored with several Fellowships, Honorary Fellowships, and national and international awards including the Outstanding Crop Scientist award conferred by the International Crop Science Society. He has served at all prestigious positions in academia including as Vice-Chancellor BC Agricultural university, Project Coordinator of Indo-Russian Center of Biotechnology in India, and Director of Research of Institute of Nutraceutical Research of Clemson University, in USA. He also worked at the Pennsylvania State University and Clemson University as Visiting Professor in USA. Recently, he has been awarded with the Raja Ramanna Fellow by the Department of Energy, Government of India. He is also heading the International Climate-Resilient Crop Genomics Consortium and International consortium for Phytomedomics and Nutriomics as their founding Principal Coordinator.
Amolkumar U. Solanke is Senior Scientist, at ICAR - National Institute of Plant Biotechnology, New Delhi. Dr. Solanke has done his PhD in Plant Molecular Biology from Delhi University, and later joined Indian Council of Agricultural Research, India. His research interest is functional genomics for biotic and abiotic stress management in crop plants, especially rice and finger millet. He has published more than 60 papers in this field in peer reviewed journals. He is executing a few funded research projects on millet and guiding MSc, PhD, and post-doctoral students.
