Bhargava and Srivastava (both biotechnology, Amity U. Uttar Pradesh-Lucknow, India), with help from fellow scientists in Latin America and France, present a reference to quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa), long grown in the Andes Mountains of South America and now gaining popularity as a grain-type food around the world. The information should help the efforts being made to spread the cultivation to other locations in order to increase the world's harvest and lower the cost. The topics include historical perspectives and domestication, distribution, taxonomy, cytology and genome size, crop production and management, stress tolerance, breeding, molecular studies, saponins, and transparency from production to consumption. Distributed in the US by Stylus Publishing. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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