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MILNER, MAX Nutritional Improvement of Food Legumes by Breeding
Protein Advisory Group of the United Nations, 1973. Trade Paperback. Good. Faint stain on back cover along spine, pencil markings on front cover, minor cover edge wear, pages slightly toned, spine creased. Preface and Acknowledgments; Contributors and Participants; Welcome by FAO - Juan Felipe Yriart; Opening Remarks of Chairman; Keynote Address; Building a Protein Revolution on Grain Legumes; NUTRITIONAL IMPORTANCE OF LEGUMES FOR HUMANS: Legumes in Human Diets and How They Might Be Improved; Factors Affecting the Nutritional Value of Beans; Discussants; Summary; Research Needed; STATUS AND POTENTIAL FOR GENETIC IMPROVEMENT OF FOOD LEGUMES: Statements; Basic Research Needed for Further Improvement of Pulse Crops in Southeast Asia; Food Legumes in India Agriculture; Improvement of Food Legumes in Tropical Africa; Food Legumes in Latin America; Genetic Improvement of Phaseolus Vulgaris; The Makerere Program; Breeding for Nutritional Improvement; On the Quest for Quality in the Field Bean; NUTRITIONALLY RELATED FACTORS IN LEGUMES REQUIRING GENETIC IMPROVEMENT: Protein and Amino Acid Profiles; Statements; Increasing Protein Quantity and Quality; Protein Quality and Quantity in High-Yielding Beans; Amino Acid Profiles of Cajanus Cajan Protein; Breeding for Protein Quality and Quantity in Field Bean; The Amino Acid Composition of Vigna unguiculata; Meal in Relation to Nutrition; The Joint FAO/IAEA Program on the Use of Nuclear Techniques to Improve Seed Patterns; Biological Value of Legume Protein As Influienced by Genetic Variation; ANTIRYPTIC AND OTHER TOXIC FACTORS: Antiryptic and Other antinutritional Factors in Legumes; Flatulence; PROCESSING AND FOOD ACCEPTANCE PROBLEMS: Utilization Problems in Food Legumes; Testa Pigments in Cajanus Cajan; Flavor; Breeding Food Legumes for Improved Processing and Consumer Acceptance Properties; ANALYTICAL AND MASS SCREENING TECHNIQUES: Methods Available and Others Needed; Useful Procedues and Needed Improvements; Quantitivive Relationships Between Total Sulfur and Methionine and Cystine in Legumes; Enzymatic Determination of Insoluble, Indigestible Residue of Beans; Characterizing Bean Seed Proteins As Basis of Screening; Germ Plasm; USEFUL EXPERIENCE FROM OTHER FOOD CROPS: Analytical Procedures for Screening Protein Quality In Cereal Grains; A CALL FOR ACTION: UPGRADING HUMAN NUTRITION THROUGH THE IMPROVEMENT OF FOOD LEGUMES.
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