Sorghum and Millets: Chemistry, Technology, and Nutritional Attributes, Third Edition is the leading resource for state-of-art knowledge on grain science and utilization surrounding sorghum and millets. The book covers important scientific knowledge, including basic science-genetics, chemistry, and biochemistry-food chemistry, nutritional quality and health-promoting attributes, agronomy, and food and feed processing technologies. Other sections delve into structure, chemistry, biochemistry, grain components, and the technologies used for food processing. Additionally, it provides holistic and complete information about all technologies in the sorghum and millets food value chain, from genomics-based breeding to grain- and product quality assurance.
Sorghum and the millets are the 5th and 6th most important cereal grains in terms of production and are cultivated across the world. They have a very wide range of end-uses as traditional staple foods and beverages, modern processed foods, and with respect to sorghum, industrial applications, including biofuels, and as an animal and aquaculture feedstuff.
Table of Contents
1. Current and future state of sorghum in the 21st Century2. Current and future state of millets in the 21st Century
3. Taxonomy, history, distribution, production and utilization.
4. Breeding and agronomy
5. Application of plant breeding and genomics for improved sorghum and millet grain nutritional quality
6. Post-harvest technologies
7. Grain structure and grain chemical composition
8. Starch synthesis, chemistry and functional properties
9. Protein synthesis, chemistry and functional properties
10. Impact of processing technologies on nutrients and nutrient bioavailability
11. Intervention trials and epidemiological studies
12. Phytochemical-related health-promoting attributes
13. Traditional food and beverage products and their technologies
14. Modern convenient food and beverage products and their technologies
15. Gluten-free dough-based foods and technologies
16. Feed grains for animal production, companion animals and aquaculture
17. Industrial and nonfood applications
18. Quality management systems
Authors
John Taylor Senior Research Fellow in Grain Science and Nutrition, University of Pretoria, South Africa.John R. N. Taylor is an emeritus professor at the University of Pretoria specializing in grain science and nutrition in Africa. He is also advisor to the Kenya-based Fortified Whole Grain Alliance. He is the author of numerous research papers and book chapters on sorghum and millets and other grains. He has been an editor of several books, most recently the ICC Handbook of 21st Century Cereal Science and Technology, published by Academic Press in 2023. John is a fellow of the Cereal & Grains Association, the International Association for Cereal Science and Technology, and the International Academy of Food Science and Technology.
Scott R. Bean USDA-ARS, CGAHR, Manhattan, USA..Scott R. Bean is a research chemist for the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in the Grain Quality and Structure Research Unit at the Center for Grain and Animal Health Research in Manhattan, Kansas. His research focuses on sorghum grain composition with an emphasis on sorghum protein chemistry and relationships to end-use quality and functionality. Scott has authored several research papers and book chapters on sorghum grain composition, sorghum protein analysis, high-throughput methods for grain characterization, and sorghum utilization.
Kwaku G. Duodu Professor, Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being and Department of Food Science, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa.Kwaku Gyebi Duodu is professor of food science and head of the Department of Consumer and Food Sciences at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He is involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in cereal science and technology, food chemistry, and food engineering. His research focuses on the health-promoting properties of African grains (cereals and legumes) and their foods where he studies metabolomic profiling, chemistry and bioactivity of phenolic compounds. He also conducts research in nutritional aspects of African grain-based foods with a focus on mineral bioaccessibility and protein quality. He has authored several research papers and book chapters on the quality, nutritional, and health-promoting properties of sorghum and millets and other grains.
