Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction
1. Role of neglected and underutilized crops in global food security and biodiversity
2. Production of neglected and underutilized crops - challenges and opportunities

Part II: Cereal and Pseudocereal Crops
3. Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa)
4. Pendant amaranth (Amaranthus caudatus)
5. Canihua (Chenopodium pallidicaule)
6. Fiindi (Digitaria exilis)
7. Indian Barnyard millet (Echinochloa frumentacea)
8. Finger millet (Eleusine coracana)
9. Teff (Eragrostis tef)
10. Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum)
11. Proso millet (Panicum miliaceum)
12. Little millet (Panicum miliare)
13. Kodo millet (Paspalum scrobiculatum)
14. Foxtail millet (Setaria italica)
15. Triticale

Part III: Food Legume Crops
16. Ground bean (Kerstingiella geocarpa)
17. Lablab-bean (Lablab purpureus)
18. Pearl lupin (Lupinus mutabilis)
19. Horse gram (Macrotyloma uniflorum)
20. Winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus)
21. African yam bean (Sphenostylis stenocarpa)
22. Moth bean (Vigna aconitifolia)
23. Adzuki bean (Vigna angularis)
24. Ground-bean (Vigna subterranea)
25. Ricebean (Vigna umbellata)
26. Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranean)

Part IV: Oil Seeds
27. Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius)
28. Sesame (Sesamum indicum)
29. Spurge (Euphorbia lagascae)
30. Wild hazel (Simmondsia chinensis)
31. Camelina (Camelina sativa)

About the Author

Muhammad Farooq is Associate Professor at the Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman. He also holds the positions of Associate Professor at the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia, Adjunct Professor at the Dankook University, Korea. He was also Young Affiliate fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (2015-2019) and is member of Global Young Academy and Pakistan Academy of Sciences. He received ‘Best Young Research Scholar Award’ from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (2013 and 2014). He was honored with the COMSTECH Award for Excellence in Research (2016) by Organization of Islamic Conference and Gold Medal (2017) by Pakistan Academy of Sciences. He received the Best University Teacher Award (2018) from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan and was named as Highly Cited Researcher by the Web of Science (2018 and 2019). He received the distinguished researcher award (2020) from the Sultan Qaboos University. He has edited and co-edited eight books, and authored and co-authored more than 380 research articles and 49 book chapters. His citations, on google scholar, exceed 22,000 with h-index of 72. Kadambot H.M. Siddique works in the Centre for Legumes in Mediterr at University of Western Australia in Crawley, Australia.