Starchy Crops Morphology, Extraction, Properties and Applications

Starchy Crops Morphology, Extraction, Properties and Applications is the first volume of the "Underground Starchy Crops of South American Origin" book series. Organized in five volumes, this series brings information on the applied level of producing and using starch from a range of plants grown in tropical and subtropical areas that have South American origin.

This book presents the characteristics and properties of starches for raw materials grown in tropical climates. It allows comparing starches from 3 types of storage organs, roots, tubers and rhizomes, with different morphological structures and physiology. It contains the methodologies of extraction and analysis, describing the commercial process with the commercial equipment's and its by-products and wastes. It also includes topics on fraud detection, nutritional aspects, and starch structure.

Edited by a team of experts with solid background on starch extraction research, the books are aimed at all those involved in research and development as well as quality control and legislation in the field of starch.

1. Introduction: importance of South American underground starchy crops

2. Origin, domestication, and evolution of underground starchy crops of South America

3. Global production and use of Starch

4. Morpho-anatomical aspects of starchy underground organs

5. Biosynthesis of starch in tuberous crop Plants

6. International legislations for the use of modified starches in food and standards for native starches

7. Laboratory methods for starch Extraction

8. Characterization of underground starchy crops as raw materials: carbohydrates, starch, mucilage, and phenolic compounds

9. Structure of starch, focusing on those from underground plant organs

10. Application properties of starches extracted from underground starchy crops of South American origin

11. Exploring the scientific interest for starch origin in South America from 2000 to 2020: Focus on non-destructive analytical methods

12. Specific methods for the analysis of starch from underground starchy crops

13. Specific analyses to differentiate commercial modified starches

14. Opportunities and challenges for underground starchy crops of South American origin

15. Food uses and nutritional applications of resistant starches

16. Adulteration involving starch and its evaluation methods

Marney Pascoli Cereda, Ph.D. has graduated in Agronomic Engineering at University of São Paulo, Brazil. She idealized and was the first Director of a Research Centre specialized in tropical starches. For her activities in research, she received in 2000 the Medal of Merit from the São Paulo Government. She also realized post-doctoral internships in Spain, France and England and technical visits in China, Thailand, Japan, India and in most Central and South American countries. Her researches focus mainly in food technology and development. In food technology she works mainly with food security, food safety and the use of agroindustry's wastes. In rural agroindustry's, she works in the development of processes in social technology and valorization of family farming products production by innovative technologies. She developed 3 patents and other 6 are in analysis process. From 2018 she remains an independent researcher and coordinates the Agro: Research, Processes and Products Laboratories.
Olivier François Vilpoux, Ph.D. has graduated in Agronomic Engineering at "Institut Supérieur D'agriculture (1991), in France, with a Master's in Business from the Institut de "Gestion Internationale en Agro Alimentaire (1992) and a PhD in Business from the "Institut National Polythecnique de Lorraine (1997), France. From 2004 to 2019 he was a professor at the Catholic University of Campo Grande (UCDB) and Professor of the Master and Doctorate Program in Local Development (UCDB), Brazil. From 2014 to 2019 he has been professor of the Doctorate in business at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul. Currently he is professor of the Master of Management and Environmental Technology at the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT). He works mainly on the following themes: collective action, cooperatives and family farming.