Dates : Production, Processing, Food, and Medicinal Values.

ISBN:

9781439849477

Title:

Author:

Manickavasagan, A.

Personal Author:

Manickavasagan, A.

Edition:

1st ed.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 pages)

Series:

Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles

Contents:

Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Editors -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: An Overview of Date Palm Production -- Chapter 2: Tissue Culture Studies in Date Palm -- Chapter 3: The Date Palm Genome Project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia -- Chapter 4: Water Management in Date Palm Groves -- Chapter 5: Fertilizer Application in Date Palm Cultivation -- Chapter 6: Environmental Concern in Date Palm Production from Atmospheric Trace Metal Contamination -- Chapter 7: Salinity Problems and Their Management in Date Palm Production -- Chapter 8: Date Palm Insect and Mite Pests and Their Management -- Chapter 9: Mechanization in Date Palm Pollination -- Chapter 10: Design Concepts for Date-Harvesting Process -- Chapter 11: Date Marketing -- Chapter 12: Drying Characteristics, Rehydration, and Color Changes of Palm Fruits during Storage -- Chapter 13: Solar Tunnel Dryer : A Novel Dryer for Dates -- Chapter 14: Processing of Dates by Dehydration and Microwave Drying -- Chapter 15: Quality Assessment of Dates by Computer Vision Technology -- Chapter 16: Nonchemical Methyl Bromide Alternatives in Dates' Processing Sector -- Chapter 17: Processing of Dates into Value-Added Products -- Chapter 18: Exploring the Possibility of Biofuel Production from By-Products and Wastes Generated from Date Industry -- Chapter 19: Physical Characteristics and Chemical Composition of Date Palm Fruits -- Chapter 20: Sorption and Structural Characteristics of Date Palm Fruit -- Chapter 21: Fermentative Products Using Dates as a Substrate -- Chapter 22: Dates as Potential Substitute for Added Sugar in Food -- Chapter 23: Use of Date Palm By-Products in Feeding Livestock -- Chapter 24: Dates : A Fruit from Heaven -- Chapter 25: The Functional Values of Dates -- Chapter 26: Nutritional and Medicinal Value of Date Fruit -- Chapter 27: Uses of Date Palm in Ayurveda.

Chapter 28: Dates in Indigenous Medicines of India -- Chapter 29: Antiamyloidogenic Effect of Dates Grown in Oman with Reference to Their Possible Protection against Alzheimer's Disease -- Back Cover.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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Publication Date:

2012

Publication Information:

Boca Raton :

CRC Press,

2012.

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Summary

Of the many varieties of date palms, the species Phoenix dactylifera Linn. is cultivated extensively and traded and consumed worldwide. Dates: Production, Processing, Food, and Medicinal Values draws from a broad spectrum of contributors to present a comprehensive survey of this particular species. The book explores a range of essential facets of w

Author Notes

Dr. Manickavasagan obtained a PhD in Biosystems Engineering from the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (PEng) in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. After attaining his PhD, he worked with McCain Foods Limited (Canada) as a Scientist. Presently, he is an Assistant Professor at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. He has published more than 50 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences.

Dr. M. Mohamed Essa obtained a PhD in Biochemistry from Annamalai University, India and did Post doctoral research in Neurosciences in NYSIBR, New York, USA. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman and Visiting Assistant Professor in Neuropharmacology group, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He conducts research in pharmacological approaches of natural products against neurological diseases by using various available models. He has published nearly 55 research articles in various peer-reviewed international journals and conferences and is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Nutrition, Pharmacology, Neurological Diseases published by Wolters-Kluwer, USA.

Dr. Ethirajan Sukumar obtained PhD in Phytochemistry and Phytobiology from the University of Madras,India and did Postdoctoral work at the University of Virginia in the USA. He is an Assistant Professor at the Higher College of Technology, Muscat, Oman. Prior to full time teaching, he was a Research Scientist in the Central Research Institute of Siddha Medicine in Chennai, India for more than 26 years. During his research career, he worked on medicinal plants used in indigenous medical practices and published 52 research papers in peer-reviewed journals.