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Tuber and root crops are the third important group of food crops after cereals and pulses, feeding about one fifth of the world population. With the burgeoning population coupled with limited land, water and other resources, the future beckons tuber and root crops in fulfilling the country’s food requirements. These crops have higher biological efficiency and greater adoption with profound production potential per unit area per unit time. Tuber and root crops are well known from time immemorial as nature’s energy bank and famine savior. This book is conceived to have an updated version on the tuber and root crops especially in the Indian context, including information on the history, biodiversity, geographical distribution, botany, neutraceutical and pharmaceutical values, new varieties, production technologies, IPM strategies, starches, post harvest technologies and value added products, bio-processing, biotechnology, ITK and future thrusts. Various aspects of cassava, sweet potato, elephant foot yam, taro, yams, coleus, yam bean and arrow root are elucidated in 17 s and appendices. This book will be of immense use to the policy makers, scientists, post graduate and under graduate students and officials concerned with tuber and root crops research, development and extension.
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M.S. Palinaswami: Project Coordinator (Tuber Crops), AICRP on Tuber Crops, Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, Trivandrum 695 017, Kerala,India
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1. Introduction by M.S. Palaniswami by Shirly Raichal Anil and K.V. Peter
2. History, origin and geographical distribution by M.S. Palaniswami and Shirly Raichal Anil
3. Botany, physiology and biodiversity by Shirly Raichal Anil and M.S. Palaniswami
4. Biochemical constituents and nutraceutical and pharmaceutical benefits by M.S. Palaniswami and Shirly Raichal Anil
5. Antinutritional factors by M.S. Palaniswami and Shirly Raichal Anil
6. Improved varieties by M.S. Palaniswami, Shirly Raichal Anil and S. K. Naskar
7. Agronomical and production technologies by M.S. Palaniswami, Shirly Raichal Anil and P.K. Singh
8. Pest and disease management by M.S. Palaniswami and J. Tarafdar
9. Tools and Equipments for Tuber Crops by S.K. Nanda
10. Tuber and Root crops as food and feed in north Eastern region of India by M.Sankaran,A.Kumaresan, B.Santhosh and K.M.Bujarbaruah
11. Tuber crops starches by S.N. Moorthy
12. Post harvest Technologies and Utilization by S.K. Nanda Gerbera
13. Tuber crops Biotechnology by M.N.Sheela and K.Rajmohan
14. Bioprocessing of Root and Tuber crops by R C Ray and M S Palaniswami
15. Indigenous Traditional Knowledge on Tuber Crops in India by M.S.Palaniswami, M.Sankaran, K.Dhinesh Babu and B.Santhosh
16. Potentialities of tuber crops by George Thomas and K.V. Peter
17. Future Thrusts by M.S. Palaniswami, Shirly Raichal Anil and K.V. Peter
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