Nutraceutical value of finger millet [Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.], and their improvement using omics approaches

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Kumar, Anil ^a   Metwal, Mamta ^a   Kaur, Sanveen ^a   Gupta, Atul K ^a   Puranik, Swati ^b   Singh, Sadhna ^a   Singh, Manoj ^a   Gupta, Supriya ^a   Babu, B K ^c   Sood, Salej ^c   Yadav, Rattan ^b  

^a G B PANT UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c VIVEKANANDA INSTITUTE OF HILL AGRICULTURE   (India)

Author keywords

Finger millet; Functional food; Health benefit; Nutraceuticals; Nutrition; Nutritional security

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976503175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00934     Document Type: Article

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