Nutriomics of Millet Crops

Millets are popularly known as “nutri-cereals” due to their high 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 the 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 agro-ecosystems 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 and food technology. Nutriomics of Millet Crops also encourages young researchers to explore this promising field.

Ramesh Namdeo Pudake is Assistant Professor at Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Crop genetics and breeding from China Agricultural University, Beijing, China. After his Ph.D. he has been engaged in research in a range of organisms but with a focus on crop genomics. He has also worked at Iowa State University of Science and Technology, 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, five books, and 20 book chapters, and has one scholarship award from the Chinese Government. He is also an expert reviewer for several journals of repute.

Amolkumar U. Solanke is Senior Scientist at the ICAR-National Institute for Plant Biotechnology, New Delhi. Dr. Solanke earned his Ph.D. degree in plant molecular biology from Delhi University and later joined the 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 peer-reviewed journals. He is executing a few funded research projects on millet and guiding M.Sc., Ph.D., and post-doctoral students.

Chittaranjan Kole is an internationally reputed scientist with an illustrious professional career spanning over 35 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 leading publishers around 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 all prestigious positions in academia, including Vice Chancellor BC Agricultural University, Project Coordinator of the Indo-Russian Center of Biotechnology, India, and Director of Research of the Institute of Nutraceutical Research, Clemson University, USA. He also worked at Pennsylvania State University and Clemson University, USA, as Visiting Professor. 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 the International Consortium for Phytomedomics and Nutriomics as their founding Principal Coordinator.