Latin-American Seeds: Agronomic, Processing and Health Aspects [Paperback]

Latin-American Seeds: Agronomic, Processing and Health Aspects summarizes the recent research on Latin-American crops regarding agronomic and botanical characteristics, composition, structure, use, production, technology, and impact on human health.

Claudia M. Haros, PhD, graduated as a Bachelor of Chemistry from the School of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina in 1990. She earned an MSc in Bromatology and Food Technology (1992); and an MSc in Biology Analysis (1997) from UBA. She is PhD in Chemistry (UBA-1999). From 1991-2003, she worked as university professor in the Organic Chemistry Department, Food Science and Technology Area of UBA. From 1991-1999 she was Research Assistant in the Cereals and Oilseeds Group, Department of Industrial Chemistry, UBA. Later, from 2000-2002 she worked in Spain as a visiting professor in the Cereal Group of the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA) in Valencia. In 2003, she was a postdoc fellow at the Department of Food Microbiology, Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research (CENEXFOOD-EU), Polish Academy of Science, Olsztyn, Poland. From 2003-2004 she received an award for working with Prof. Sandberg of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Life Science Division, University of Chalmers, Gothenburg, Sweden. In 2005 she became an Associate Researcher of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in the framework of a Ram?n y Cajal Programme. Since 2008 she is a Senior Scientist at CSIC and continues her investigation in the Cereal Group, Department of Food Science of IATA. Since the early stages of her career, she was mainly engaged in research in respect to Cereal Science and Technology field. The major theme in Dr. Haros's research is the utilization of different strategies to improve nutritional and/or functional value of cereals, their ingredients and products, with tlS·