About the Book: Phytonutritional Improvement of Crops
An in-depth treatment of cutting-edge work being done internationally to
develop new techniques in crop nutritional quality improvement Phytonutritional
Improvement of Crops explores recent advances in biotechnological methods for
the nutritional enrichment of food crops. Featuring contributions from an
international group of experts in the field, it provides cutting-edge
information on techniques of immense importance to academic, professional and
commercial operations.
World population is now estimated to be 7.5 billion people, with an annual
growth rate of nearly 1.5%. Clearly, the need to enhance not only the quantity
of food produced but its quality has never been greater, especially