Pigeonpea Nutrition and Its Improvement
2008
p. v. rao | r. v. kumar | k. b. saxena
Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.), known by severalvernacular and names such as red gram, tuar, Angolapea. yellow dhal and oil dhal, is one of the major grain legume crops ofthe tropics and sub-tropics. It is a crop of small holder drylandfmmers because it can grow well under subsistence level of agricultureand provides nutritive food, fodder, and fuel wood. It also improves soilby fixing atmospheric nitrogen. India by far is the largest pigeonpea producerit is consumed as decorticated split peas, popularly called as'dhaL' In other countries, its consumption as whole dty and greenvegetable is popular. Its foliage is used as fodder and milling by-products(onn an excellent feed for domestic animals. Pigeonpea seeds containabout 20-22% protein and appreciable amounts of essential amino.acidsand minerals. DehuHing and boiling treatments of seeds get rid of themost antinutritional factors as tannins and enzyme inhibitors. Seedstorage causes considerable losses in the quality of this legume. The seedprotein of pigeonpea has been successfully enhanced by breeding from20-22% to 28-30%. Such lines also agronomically performed well andhave acceptable and color. The high-protein lines were found nutritionally superior to the cultivars because they would provide morequantities of utilizable protein and sulfur-containing amino acids
Afficher plus [+] Moins [-]K. B. Saxena, R. V. Kumar, P. V. Rao, 'Pigeonpea Nutrition and Its Improvement', Journal of Crop Production, vol. 5(1-2), pp.227-260, Informa UK Limited, 2008
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