Maize: Nutrition Dynamics and Novel Uses /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Chaudhary, Dharam Paul. (Editor), Kumar, Sandeep. (Editor), Langyan, Sapna. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Section A: Introductory chapter
  • 1. Nutritive value of maize: Improvements, applications and constraints
  • Section B: Protein quality of maize
  • 2 Breeding challenges and perspectives in developing and promoting quality protein maize germplasm
  • 3 Maize protein quality and its improvement- development of quality protein maize (QPM) in India
  • 4 Molecular interventions for enhancing the protein quality of maize
  • Section C: Nutritional quality of maize
  • 5 Maize: Grain structure, composition, milling and starch characteristics
  • 6 Oil improvement in maize: potential and prospects
  • 7.Maize carotenoid composition and biofortification for provitamin a activity
  • Section D: Biotic and abiotic stresses in maize
  • 8 Insect pests and their management: current status and future need of research in quality maize
  • 9. Physiological response of maize under rising atmospheric CO2 and temperature
  • Section E: Value addition in maize
  • 10 Maize utilization in food bioprocessing: An overview
  • 11 Maize malting: Retrospect and prospect
  • 12. Value addition in maize
  • 13. Fodder quality of maize: its preservation.