Carbohydrates in grain legume seeds : improving nutritional quality and agronomic characteristics /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2000.
• Subjects: Legumes > Seeds > Composition.; Carbohydrates.; Seed technology.; Field Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Plant Composition.; Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.; Plant Production.; Crop Produce.; Food Processing (General); Food Composition and Quality.; Feed Composition and Quality.; Biotechnology (General), (Revised June 2002); Agronomy.; Biochemistry.; Biotechnology.; Food processing.; Grain legumes.; Interdisciplinary research.; International cooperation.; Networking.; Nutrition.; Nutritive value.; Plant breeding.; Plant physiology.; Seeds.; Electronic books.
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This book is the result of a combined effort from scientists covering many disciplines interacting within a European Union-funded Copernicus project entitled 'Carbohydrate Biotechnology Network for Grain Legumes' (CABINET). The CABINET project linked 30 participants from 14 countries acros...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Carbohydrate Chemistry
• Nutrition
• Processing
• Seed Physiology and Biochemistry
• Biotechnology
• Breeding and Agronomy
• Strategies for Manipulating Grain Legume Carbohydrates.