Providing safe, nutritious, and wholesome food for poor and undernourished populations
has been a major challenge for the developing world. Acute shortage, unreliable supply …

The availability of soyabean meal for animal feed use in Asia and the Pacific is low. The
potential usefulness of a wide variety of protein-rich plant materials which could replace …

Natural products that have both plant growth regulatory properties and pharmaceutical
properties are examined in this book. This is the first and most up-to-date text linking …

Six Mucuna species (M. pruriens, M. cochinchinensis, M. rajada, M. veracruz white, M.
veracruz mottle and M. deeringeana) have been subjected to standard analytical techniques …

Mucuna pruriens var. utilis, an underutilized tropical legume has a nutritional quality
comparable to soya beans and other conventional legumes as it contains similar proportions …

The effect of various domestic processing methods on antinutrients and starch fractions and
in vitro protein and starch digestibilities of white and black varieties of Mucuna pruriens var …

Impact of gamma irradiation on the antinutritional constituents of seeds of Mucuna pruriens
was assessed on exposing to doses of 2.5, 5.0, 7.5, 10, 15 and 30kGy. Except for 2.5 kGy …

Perhaps with the notable exception, and that only in recent years, of red meat, which
contributes dietary saturated fats and cholesterol, two well‐known reasons in the etiology of …

Two different germplasms of a white variety and one germplasm of a black variety of Mucuna
pruriens var. util is were evaluated for their physicochemical properties as well as their …

Four accessions of the under-utilized legume, velvet bean (Mucuna pruriens var. utilis (Wall.
ex Wight) Bak. ex Burck), collected from three different locations of Western Ghats, South …