| Development and Uses of Biofortified Agricultural Products Contributor(s): Banuelos, Gary S. (Editor), Lin, Zhi-Qing (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1420060058 ISBN-13: 9781420060058 Publisher: CRC Press OUR PRICE: $209.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2008 Annotation: Nutritionally important trace elements, essential for human health, are both deficient and over-abundant in soils in many regions of the world. Using a multidisciplinary approach, this book provides new strategies and techniques for the production of bioforitfied agricultural products from different soils. Contributors explore the effects of both environmental and biological factors on the accumulation and speciation of nutritionally important trace elements in agricultural products. Other chapters address alternative biosources and bioproducts produced from phytoremediation processes. The text also examines bioavailability and the effects of bioproduct compounds. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - General - Science | Life Sciences - Botany - Technology & Engineering | Food Science - General |
| Dewey: 630 |
| LCCN: 2008019818 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.25 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Although ending world hunger remains the most important goal, increasingly the focus is on simultaneously improving world malnutrition. Paradoxically, nutritionally important trace elements essential for human health are both deficient and over-abundant in soils in many regions of the world. Using a multidisciplinary approach, Development and Uses of Biofortified Agricultural Products provides new strategies and techniques for the production of biofortified agricultural products from different soils. Seventeen contributors from twelve countries explore the effects of environmental and biological factors on the accumulation and speciation of nutritionally important trace elements in agricultural products. They explore novel strategies regarding the functional foods and animal feed and other forms of biofortified agricultural products. The text addresses alternative biosources and bioproducts produced from phytoremediation processes as well as the bioavailability and the effects of bioproduct compounds. The editors comprehensively synthesize the ever-mounting body of new information on biofortification, including theoretical, practical, and practiced agricultural-based strategies in micronutrient management and improvement in different types of soils. The book provides a unique and useful platform to further the understanding of nutritionally important trace elements in the context of biogeochemistry, food chain transfer, and health-related issues. |
