What's New about Crop Plants: Novel Discoveries of the 21st Century

by U.S. Gupta

Until recently, breeding efforts in mass produced food crops centered on high yield production while sacrificing flavor, taste and other quality traits. Now, more emphasis is being placed on the enhancement of nutritional and medicinal properties of the food crops. Aside from merely being considered a source of food, crops are today being looked from a health benefit perspective and even from an environmental standpoint. This volume looks at the use...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157808699X
• ISBN13: 9781578086993
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 668 Pages
• Weight: 2.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"