Cereal Biotechnology

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Cereals owe their English name to the Roman goddess Ceres, the giver of grain, indicative of the antiquity and importance of cereals (Hill 1937). This importance is still very much the case today; cereals of one sort or another sustain the bulk of mankind’s basic nutritional needs, both directly and indirectly as animal feed. It is primarily the grains of cereals that are useful to us, although the vegetative parts of the plant may be used as fodder or for silage production, and straw is used for animal bedding.
Cereals are members of the large monocotyledonous grass family, the Gramineae. The flowering organs are carried on a stem called the rachis, which may be branched, and in turn bears spikelets which may carry more than one flower at each node of the rachilla. The spikelets may be organised in a loose panicle as in sorghum, oats and some millets, or in a tight spike, as in wheat. The length of the internodes of the rachis and of the rachilla, and the number of flowers at each node of the spikelet determine the overall architecture. Each spikelet is subtended by two bracts or leaf-like organs termed the glumes, and each flower in the spikelet is enclosed in two bract-like organs called the lemma and palea. The lemma may be extended to form a long awn. In some cereals or cereal varieties the lemma and palea may remain attached to the grain; these are termed hulled or husked grains, such as oats and most barleys, as opposed to naked grains such as most wheats and maize.
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(Woodhead Publishing Limited) Discusses genetic modification in cereal biotechnology, explaining the basis for current regulations and methods for assessing risks. Also addresses specific applications for cereal biotechnology from the use of molecular biological tools cereal production methods.
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Hardcover: 264 pages
Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (August 31, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0849308992
ISBN-13: 978-0849308994
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 0.7 inches

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