Quinoa: Sustainable Production, Variety Improvement and Nutritive Value in Agroecological Systems brings together authors from around the world to provide a complete assessment of the current state of global quinoa research and production. Topics will include quinoa history and culture, genomics and breeding, agronomy, nutrition, marketing, and end-uses. The book focuses in particular on the emerging role of quinoa in providing increased food security to smallholder farmers and communities throughout the world.
Quinoa will be of interest to advanced undergraduate students and graduate students studying crop science, agronomy, and plant genetics, as well as for the growing number of quinoa researchers across a multitude of plant science disciplines.