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Recent Advances in the Application of Biotechnology for Improving the Production of Secondary Metabolites from Quinoa

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Biology and Biotechnology of Quinoa

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Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) has been identified as a unique plant with several benefits that could solve several challenges facing mankind. The application of some recent advances in biotechnological techniques could help toward enhancing the production of important metabolites and nutritional attributes and improve the quality of several products that could be derived from quinoa. It is a source of excellent antioxidant activity along with high values of amino acids, carbohydrates, fatty acids, minerals, phenolic compounds, and saponins. Some of these metabolites possess biotechnological relevance in the production of pharmaceutical, insecticidal, biopesticidal, and nematocidal products. This chapter provides detailed information on the utilization of in vitro tissue culturing for effective production of essential metabolites, while the application of somatic embryogenesis methodology has been identified as significant instrument for effective production of virus-free plants. Furthermore, detailed information on the application of metabolomics together with hyphenated analytical and spectroscopic methodology which included gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry, liquid chromatography, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry is provided. Relevance of synthetic biology, informatics, computational biology, and bioinformatics together with nanotechnology on how they could improve some bioactive constituents derived from quinoa plants was also highlighted.

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