Varieties and Landraces
Cultural Practices and Traditional Uses
- 1st Edition - May 5, 2023
- Latest edition
- Editors: Marney Pascoli Cereda, Olivier Francois Vilpoux
- Language: English
Varieties and Landraces: Cultural Practices and Traditional Uses, Volume Two in the Underground Starchy Crops of South American Origin series, brings information on the applied l… Read more
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Description
Description
Varieties and Landraces: Cultural Practices and Traditional Uses, Volume Two in the Underground Starchy Crops of South American Origin series, brings information on the applied level of producing and using starch from a range of plants grown in tropical and subtropical areas of South American origin. The book presents the economic and social importance of these crops that store starch in underground organs. The title also explores bioactive compounds as a way for the valorization of these crops, along with commercial and traditional cultivation in South America (Colombia/Venezuela/Andean highlands, Mexico, Brazilian savannah and Pantanal, besides the Amazon forest), bringing botanical information, too.
Edited by a team of experts with a solid background in starch extraction research, this book is ideal for anyone involved in research and development, as well as anyone in cultivation, quality control and legislation in the field of starch.
Key features
Key features
- Presents a summary view of how agricultural production and cultivation of starchy crops occur in their countries of origin, highlighting their strengths and challenges
- Covers the possibilities for local development by valuing products obtained from natural crops in more distant and scarcer markets of variability
- Evaluates landraces that are found in small-scale agriculture where traditions are maintained, including tubers, rhizomes and roots as carbohydrate sources used as stable foods in South American countries
Readership
Readership
Specialists in agriculture and botanicals, starch and its applications, Graduate and Post-graduate students (MBA, MSc and Ph.D. Students), Researchers, Professors and Educators in general and Technicians, Agronomist and Agricultural engineers, Mechanical engineers, Chemical and Biochemical engineers, Technicians in construction of small agricultural machines, Technicians in processes and product development and quality control, It is also interesting for specialists in Management, Economists, Logistics, Biologists, Geneticists, and Agricultural microbiology
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. Introduction
2. Bioactive compounds as way to valorize the crops that accumulate starch underground
3. Yams (Dioscorea sp.) cultivation and landraces with potential for market.
4. Dioscorea trifida: a little known South American specie
5. Andean highlands: Peru/Bolivia: Potato (Solanum tuberosum, L.) commercial and traditional cultivation in South America.
6. Andean highlands: Peru/Bolivia: The traditionally cultivated minor tuber crops - their botany, agronomy, ethnobotany and present uses
7. Andean highlands: Peru/Bolivia: Traditionally cultivated Andean Root Crops - their botany, agronomy, ethnobotany and present uses
8. Yam bean (Pachyrhizus tuberosus (Lam.) Spreng. and Pachyrhizus.erosus (L.) Urb. – Fabaceae/ Leguminosae) – cultivars and landraces with market potential - their botany, agronomy, ethnobotany and present uses.
9. Cassava cyanogenic glycosides: biosynthesis, distribution, detoxification, and dosage methods.
10. Genetic variability of cassava landraces
11. High levels of diversity in cassava germplasm from central Brazil
12. Sweet potato (Ipomea batatas Lam.): cultivation and potentialities in Brazil.
13. Agronomic characteristics (varieties or landraces) and potential of Taniacoco (Xanthosoma sagittifolium) as food and starch source
14. A case study of Taniacoco (Xanthosoma sagittifolium) as a traditional food in Puerto Rico
15. Amazonas forest (Brazil, Equador, Colombia and Venezuela) Case study of "mairá" potato (Casimirella sp.) and its potential as a starchy crop in Brazilian Amazonia
2. Bioactive compounds as way to valorize the crops that accumulate starch underground
3. Yams (Dioscorea sp.) cultivation and landraces with potential for market.
4. Dioscorea trifida: a little known South American specie
5. Andean highlands: Peru/Bolivia: Potato (Solanum tuberosum, L.) commercial and traditional cultivation in South America.
6. Andean highlands: Peru/Bolivia: The traditionally cultivated minor tuber crops - their botany, agronomy, ethnobotany and present uses
7. Andean highlands: Peru/Bolivia: Traditionally cultivated Andean Root Crops - their botany, agronomy, ethnobotany and present uses
8. Yam bean (Pachyrhizus tuberosus (Lam.) Spreng. and Pachyrhizus.erosus (L.) Urb. – Fabaceae/ Leguminosae) – cultivars and landraces with market potential - their botany, agronomy, ethnobotany and present uses.
9. Cassava cyanogenic glycosides: biosynthesis, distribution, detoxification, and dosage methods.
10. Genetic variability of cassava landraces
11. High levels of diversity in cassava germplasm from central Brazil
12. Sweet potato (Ipomea batatas Lam.): cultivation and potentialities in Brazil.
13. Agronomic characteristics (varieties or landraces) and potential of Taniacoco (Xanthosoma sagittifolium) as food and starch source
14. A case study of Taniacoco (Xanthosoma sagittifolium) as a traditional food in Puerto Rico
15. Amazonas forest (Brazil, Equador, Colombia and Venezuela) Case study of "mairá" potato (Casimirella sp.) and its potential as a starchy crop in Brazilian Amazonia
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: May 9, 2023
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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Marney Pascoli Cereda
Marney Pascoli Cereda, Ph.D. has graduated in Agronomic Engineering at University of São Paulo, Brazil. She idealized and was the first Director of a Research Centre specialized in tropical starches. For her activities in research, she received in 2000 the Medal of Merit from the São Paulo Government. She also realized post-doctoral internships in Spain, France and England and technical visits in China, Thailand, Japan, India and in most Central and South American countries. Her researches focus mainly in food technology and development. In food technology she works mainly with food security, food safety and the use of agroindustry’s wastes. In rural agroindustry’s, she works in the development of processes in social technology and valorization of family farming products production by innovative technologies. She developed 3 patents and other 6 are in analysis process. From 2018 she remains an independent researcher and coordinates the Agro: Research, Processes and Products Laboratories.
Affiliations and expertise
Researcher, Agro: Research, Processes and Products Laboratories, Campo Grande, BrazilOF
Olivier Francois Vilpoux
Olivier François Vilpoux, Ph.D. has graduated in Agronomic Engineering at “Institut Supérieur D'agriculture” (1991), in France, with a Master’s in Business from the Institut de “Gestion Internationale en Agro Alimentaire” (1992) and a PhD in Business from the “Institut National Polythecnique de Lorraine” (1997), France. From 2004 to 2019 he was a professor at the Catholic University of Campo Grande (UCDB) and Professor of the Master and Doctorate Program in Local Development (UCDB), Brazil. From 2014 to 2019 he has been professor of the Doctorate in business at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul. Currently he is professor of the Master of Management and Environmental Technology at the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT). He works mainly on the following themes: collective action, cooperatives and family farming.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Federal University of Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, BrazilView book on ScienceDirect
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