Millets and Millet Technology

Chapter 1. Millets for Life: A Brief Introduction.- Chapter 2. Global Scenario of Millets Cultivation.- Chapter 3. Minor Millets: Profile and Ethnobotanical Scenario.- Chapter 4. Millets: Malnutrition and Nutrition Security.- Chapter 5. Nutritional Composition of Millets.- Chapter 6. Millet starch: Current Knowledge and Emerging Insights of Structure, Physiology, Glycaemic Attributes and Uses.- Chapter 7. Product Development from Millets.- Chapter 8. Seed Storage Proteins and Amino Acids Synthetic Pathways and their Regulation in Cereals with Reference to Biologically and Nutritionally Important Proteins and Bioactive Peptides in Millets.- Chapter 9. Millets, Phytochemicals and their Health Attributes.- Chapter 10. Science-Led Innovation for Searching and Creating Values in Natural Gene Pool of Millets for Agri-Food Nutrition and Health.- Chapter 11. Processing Technology for Value Addition in millets.- Chapter 12. Fermented Millet Technology and Products.- Chapter 13. Processing-Mediated changes in the Antinutritional, Phenolic and Antioxidant Contents of Millet.- Chapter 14. Technology for Millet Value-Added Products.- Chapter 15. Millet-Based Traditional Processed Food Beverages.- Chapter 16. Millet-Based Value-Added food products for diabetics.- Chapter 17. Genomics-Assisted Improvement of Grain Quality and Nutraceutical Properties in Millets.- Chapter 18. Rural Entrepreneurship Development in Millet Processing.- Chapter 19. Quality Management System in Millet and Sorghum.- Chapter 20. Demand Creation Measures and Value Chain Model on Millets in India.- Chapter 21. Role of Nutrihub Incubation for the Development Of Business Opportunities in Millets: An Indian Scenario.-

Anil Kumar is Director, Education, Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi (UP). He has 30 years of research, teaching and administrative experience in various capacities. He had worked as Professor & Head, (2006-2018), Associate Professor (2003-2006) and Assistant Professor (1993-1999) Dept. of Molecular Biology & Genetic Engineering, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar. The research interests focus on Plant Molecular & Cell Biology, Functional Genomics, Immunodiagnostic applications in Agriculture, Host-Pathogen Interaction and solving problems of agricultural importance employing the OMICS tools and techniques of molecular biology and immunology. He has to his credit more than 250 research papers, reviews, and also several chapters contributed to books, popular articles, 16 Books/Bulletins/Manuals. He has been recipient of several prestigious awards and honors of national importance and also a highly cited scientist who contributed for augmenting biotechnology education in the country.