Rice
Production, Consumption and Health Benefits
Rice is one of the most important food crops around the world and feeds over half of the global population. Hence, the study of rice productivity is vital to assuring an adequate food supply for all. In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of the production, consumption and health benefits of rice. Topics discussed in this compilation include the pharmacology and toxicology of rice bran and its potential efficacy in reducing cardiovascular disease; arsenic in rice and its health emergency in South and South-East Asia; the quality of rice as affected by paddy drying and kernel storage; plant architecture in rice and grasses and its relevance to crop improvement; rice allelopathy as an environmentally friendly weed control strategy; rice bran as a byproduct for the production of bioactive compounds and nutraceuticals and rice flour as a prospective gluten-free cereal-based food product.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Rice Bran Oil, pp. 1-36
(Arrigo Francesco Giuseppe Cicero, Sibel Ertek, "GC Descovich" Atherosclerosis & Metabolic Diseases Research Center, "D. Campanacci" Clinical Medicine & Applied Biotechnology Dept., Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, and others)
Arsenic in Rice: A Human Health Emergency in South and South-East Asia, pp. 37-64
(M. Azizur Rahman, M. Mamunur Rahman, H. Hasegawa, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kakuma, Kanazawa, Japan, and others)
Quality of Rice as Affected by Paddy Drying and Kernel Storage, pp. 65-88
(Kanitha Tananuwong, Yuwares Malila, Department of Food Technology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, and others)
Branching Pattern: An Inevitable Trait for Rice Production, pp. 89-108
(Saminathan Thangasamy, Pablo Bolaños-Villegas, Guang-Yuh Jauh, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., and others)
Rice Allelopathy as an Environmentally Friendly Weed Control Strategy for Rice Production, pp. 109-128
(Hisashi Kato-Noguchi, Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Miki, Kagawa, Japan)
Rice Bran: A Rice Milling Byproduct for the Production of Bioactive Compounds and Nutraceuticals, pp. 129-146
(C. Fabian, Y.H. Ju, Department of Chemical Engineering, De la Salle University, Manila, Philippines, and others)
Genetic and Molecular Characterization of a Bacterial Blight Resistance Gene in Rice, pp. 147-162
(Dongying Gao, Lihua Sun, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China)
Rice Flour as Prospective Gluten-Free Cereal-Based Food Product, pp. 163-174
(Bipin Vaidya, Jong-Bang Eun, Department of Food Science and Technology and Functional Food Research Center, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, S. Korea)
Application of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Imaging Mass Spectrometry for the Analysis of Oryza sativa Rice, pp. 175-182
(Nobuhiro Zaima, Department of Applied Biological Chemistry,Graduate School of Agriculture, Kinki University, Naka-Machi, Nara, Japan)
