Cultivars : chemical properties, antioxidant activities and health benefits / / Katya Carbone, editor.

• Superior document: Agriculture issues and policies
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Carbone, Katya.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Botanical research and practices; Nova biomedical; Agriculture issues and policies series.
• Physical Description: vi, 281 p. :; ill.
• Notes: Includes index.

Table of Contents

Vegetable breeding for nutritional quality and health benefits / Joao Silva Dias -- Cultivar identification and traceability, a molecular approach / Antonella Pasqualone -- Antioxidant compounds and nutraceutical benefits of Mediterranean red fruit / Teresa Casacchia and Adriano Sofo -- Phytochemical profiles and antiradical capacity of grape seed extracts from different Italian cultivar: re-using of winery by-products / Francesca Cecchini ... et al. -- Common beans: antioxidant capacity and health connection / R. Campos-Vega and Dave B. Oomah -- Chemical properties and health benefits of active constituents in cultivar seed oils / Aicha Olfa Cherif -- Comparative study on phenolic profile and antioxidant potential of six Tunisian autochthonous olive cultivars / B. Gargouri, I. Feki, M. Bouaziz -- Study of the oxidative stability of almonds based on different parametres and techniques: application to cultivar authenticity / A. Beltran Sanahuja, M.C. Garrigos Selva -- Different cultivars of the same species of plant may produce proteins that differ in structure and function / Tzi Bun Ng, Evandro Fei Fang, Jack Ho Wong -- Corn biotechnology / Pil Son Choi ... et al. -- Influences of nitrate on nodule structure and nitrate reductase activity in Arachis hypogaea L. (cv Tegua Runner type) / Cecilia Belgoff, Maria del Carmen Tordable and Stella Castro -- Fatty acid un-saturation in the response of tomato to temperature stress / Anita Maienza ... et al.