Improvement of the Nutritional Quality of Sorghum and Pearl Millet

Kanwar J.S. , and Ryan J.G. , “Recent Trends in World Sorghum and Millet Production and Some Possible Future Developments,” paper presented at the Symposium on Production, Processing and Utilization of Maize, Sorghum and Millets, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India, December 1976.

Singh R. , and Axtell J.D. , “High Lysine Mutant Gene (hl) that Improves Protein Quality and Biological Value of Grain Sorghum,” Crop Science, 13: 535 (1973)

Jambunathan R. , Mertz E.T. , and Axtell J.D. , “Fractionation of Soluble Proteins of High Lysine and Normal Sorghum Grain,” Cereal Chemistry, 52: 119 (1975).

Mohan D.P. , “Chemically Induced High Lysine Mutants in Sorghum Bicolor (L) Moench,” Ph.D. thesis, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana (1975).

Guiragossian V. , Chibber B.A.K. , van Scoyoc S. , Jambunathan R. , Mertz E.T. , and Axtell J.D. , “Characteristics of Proteins from Normal, High Lysine, and High Tannin Sorghums,” J. Agric. Food Chom., 26: 219 (1978).

Johnson R.M. , and Craney L.E. , “Rapid Biuret Method for Protein Content in Grains,” Cereal Chemistry, 48: 276 (1971).

Udy D.C. , “Improved Dye Method for Estimating Protein,” J. Amer. Oil Chemists’ Soc., 48: 29A (1971)

McMillen W.W. , Wiseman B.R. , Burns R.E. , Harris H.B. , and Green G.C. , “Bird Resistance in Diverse Germplasm of Sorghum,” Agronomy J., 64: 821 (1972).

McLaren D.S , “The Great Protein Fiasco,” Lancet, 2: 93 (1974).

Payne P.R. , “Nutritional Criteria for Breeding and Selection of Crops: With Special Reference to Protein Quality,” Plant f oozes for Man 2: 95 (1976)

National Institute of Nutrition, National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau disport for the Year 1975, Indian Council of Medical Research, Hyderabad (1976).

UNU-WHP Fellows Invited to Enter Prize Competition

The UNU World Hunger Programme is planning a meeting in Bellagio, Italy, 28 April to 2 May 1980 to discuss how the UNU might best use the instruments of scholarship, research, advanced training, and dissemination of knowledge and its flexibility and capacity to deal directly with institutions and individuals to make a significant impact on the world hunger problem. An invitation is extended to all current and former UNU Fellows to contribute a written essay on this subject. Contributions are limited to 1015 double-spaced typewritten pages and may be written in English, Spanish, or French. They should be received at UNU Headquarters in Tokyo not later than 15 March, First prize will be US$500, and the essay will be published in the Food and Nutrition Bulletin. Other entries considered publishable will receive a prize of US$200 each.