Starch from a variety of food crops has been utilized in the food, pulp and textile industries. With an increase in population, there is scarcity of the food resources. There is a need to exploit the potential of starch from the wild crop relatives for the numerous industrial starch applications. There is also a need to assess the phenotypic diversity of these wild crop relatives in order to fully utilize them in plant breeding. This book therefore documents information on the distribution, phenotypic... Mehr