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DATES: PRODUCTION, PROCESSING, FOOD, AND MEDICINAL VALUES (MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS - INDUSTRIAL PROFILES)

by A. Manickavasagan; M. Mohamed Essa; E. Sukumar; et al

Published by CRC Press. 1st. 2012

Slightly better than very good condition. This text covers the post-harvest operations and processing of dates, physical, chemical, structural, and sensory properties of dates as human food. The authors also discuss the value of low quality dates and byproducts as cattle feed. The final section focuses on the potential medicinal values of dates. Blue glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos and a few colour. xviii and 415 pages including index.

Boards lightly scuffed. Contents clean.

ISBN: 9781439849453
Stock no. 1831247

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Contents

  • Preface
  • Editors
  • Contributors
  • PART 1 PRODUCTION
  • Chapter 1 An Overview of Date Palm Production
  • R. Al-Yahyai and A Manickavasagan
  • Chapter 2 Tissue Culture Studies in Date Palm
  • Sardar A Farooq, Roohi S Khan and Talat T. Farook
  • Chapter 3 The Date Palm Genome Project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  • Xiaowei Zhang, Jun Tan, Meng Yang, Yuxin Yin, Ibrahim S Al-Mssallem, and Jun Yu
  • Chapter 4 Water Management in Date Palm Groves
  • M Mumtaz Khan and SA Prathapar
  • Chapter 5 Fertilizer Application in Date Palm Cultivation
  • Ahmed Al-Busaidi
  • Chapter 6 Environmental Concern in Date Palm Production from Atmospheric Trace Metal Contamination
  • Salim H Al-Rawahy and Hameed Sulaiman
  • Chapter 7 Salinity Problems and their Management in Date Palm Production
  • Nazir Hussain, Salim Al-Rasbi, Nasser Salim Al-Wahaibi, Ghanum Abdul Rehman Al-Ghanum, and OSman El-Sharief Abdalla
  • Chapter 8 Date Palm Insect and Mite Pests and their Management
  • Mohammad Ali Al-Deeb
  • Chapter 9 Mechanization in Date Palm Pollination
  • Ahman Mostaan
  • Chapter 10 Design Concepts for Date-Harvesting Process
  • Hemantha PW Jayasuriya
  • Chapter 11 Date Marketing
  • Msafiri Daudi Mbaga
  • PART II PROCESSING
  • Chapter 12 Drying Characteristics, Rehydration and Colour Changes of Palm Fruits during Storage
  • Kolawole O Falade and Emmanuel S Abbo
  • Chapter 13 Solar Tunnel Dryer: A Novel Dryer for Dates
  • MA Basunia and HH Handali
  • Chapter 14 Processing of Dates by Dehydration and Microwave Drying
  • DG Rao, T Hariharan and S Feroz
  • Chapter 15 Quality Assessment of Dates by Computer Vision Technology
  • A Manickavasagan and R Al-Yahnya
  • Chapter 16 Nonchemical Methyl Bromide Alternatives in Dates' Processing Sector
  • Mohsen Ahmed El Mohandes
  • Chapter 17 Processing of Dates into Value-Added Products
  • P Vijayanand and SG Kulkarni
  • Chapter 18 Exploring the Possibility of Biofuel Production from By-Products and Wastes Generated from Data Industry
  • D Ramesh, S Karthikeyan, and G Chinnanchetty
  • PART III FOOD
  • Chapter 19 Physical Characteristics and Chemical Composition of Date Palm Fruits
  • Nejib Guizani and Vandita Singh
  • Chapter 20 Sorption and Structural Characteristics of Date Palm Fruit
  • <ohammad Shafiur Rahman
  • Chapter 21 Fermentative Products Using Dates as a Substrate
  • Nallusamy Sivakumar
  • Chapter 22 Dates as Potential Substitute for Added Sugar in Food
  • A Manickavasagan
  • Chapter 23 Use of Date Palm By-Products in Feeding Livestock
  • O Mahgoub, IT Kadim, and W Al-Marzooqi
  • PART IV MEDICINAL VALUES
  • Chapter 24 Dates: A Fruit from Heaven
  • Muhammad Qasim and Summar A Naqvi
  • Chapter 25 The Functional Values of Dates
  • Mohamed Ali Al-Farsi and Chang Yong Lee
  • Chapter 26 Nutritional and Medicinal Value of Date Fruits
  • Amanat Ali, Mostafa Waly, M Mohamed Essa, and Sankar Devarjan
  • Chapter 27 Uses of Date Palm in Ayurveda
  • M Shanmugapriya and Kishor Patwardhan
  • Chapter 28 Dates in Indigenous Medicines of India
  • Ethirajan Sukumar
  • Chapter 29 Antiamyloidogenic Effect of Dates Grown in Oman with Reference to Their Possible Protection against Alzehimer's Disease
  • M Mohamed Essa, Gilles J Guillemin, Samir Al-Adawi, Abdullah Al-Asmi, Ragini Vaishav, Nandhagopal Ramachandiran and Mustraq A Memon
  • Index

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