Crop improvement for enhanced grain quality and utilization

Abstract

Cereal grain based foods are very diverse, ethnically determined, and influenced by concentration and composition of grain constituents. It is now well recognized that grains based food products in addition to meeting the calorific requirements should also be enriched in grain constituents that prevent diseases and promote human health and well being. In the 1st ICC India Grains Conference session ‘Crop improvement for enhanced grain quality and utilization’ presentations addressed both the traditional and current global and India specific cereal grain quality objectives and strategies to meet the challenges of dynamic grain quality requirements.