Wheat Science: Nutritional and Anti-Nutritional Properties, Processing, Storage, Bioactivity, and Product Development [Paperback]

This book provides a holistic understanding and covers recent developments of wheat science under one umbrella. Emphasis is placed on current trends and advances in nutritional and antinutritional properties, processing, storage, bioactivity and product development.?

Om Prakash Gupta is a Senior scientist (Plant Biochemistry) at ICAR-Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal, Haryana, India. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. He has been actively engaged in research and teaching in the field of wheat quality and molecular biology since 2008. His major research interests include small RNA's role during various biotic and abiotic stresses, molecular basis of Fe and Zn biofortification, nutritional and processing quality. Dr. Gupta has authored and coauthored in >80 research publications and serving as editorial board members of many peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Gupta is recipient of several academic awards including Jawaharlal Nehru Award for outstanding doctoral thesis by ICAR, and University Silver Medal, Aspee Gold Medal and Dr. Kirtikar Memorial Gold Medal, Chowdhary Charan Singh Memorial Award. He is fellow of the Society for Advancement of Wheat and Barley Research.

Sunil Kumar is currently serving as Principal Scientist (Biochemistry) at Quality and Basic Science Division at ICAR-IIWBR, Karnal. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar in Biochemistry. He has served as Assistant Professor at MPUAT, Udaipur and as Assistant Scientist at CCSHAU, Hisar from 2005-2011 before joining ICAR as Senior Scientist and contributed towards teaching and research work. His areas of research interest are Plant biochemistry, antioxidative system and post-harvest biology. Throughout 16 years of service experience, he has worked/completed various institutional/externallylCc