**Meet the editor**

Oscar Grillo was born in Catania (Sicily) in 1977. He is a food technologist with an international PhD degree in Applied and Environmental Botany. Since 2003, he has been working as a researcher at the *Stazione Sperimentale di Granicoltura per la Sicilia*, a government institute of agronomic research, mainly working with computer vision applied to food matrices and plant structures, primarily

seeds, and in particular studying wheat and the related leguminous plants. For many years, he collaborated with the *Sardinian Germplasm Bank* of the *Biodiversity Conservation Centre* of the University of Cagliari on projects devoted to seed characterization and identification by image analysis. He is also working as a supervisor for many MSc and PhD degree students, making their own contributions to the agronomical and botanical research. Results of his work have been published in many peer-reviewed journals and international conference papers. A referee for a few peer-reviewed journals, many times, he has been invited as a visiting professor by national and international universities and research centers.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Identification 23**

**Section 1 Rediscovery of Landraces as a Resource for the Future 1**

Chapter 2 **Phenolic Fingerprinting and Glumes Image Analysis as an Effective Approach for Durum Wheat Landraces**

Siracusa, Gianfranco Venora and Giuseppe Ruberto

Chapter 3 **Rice Biodiversity in Cold Hill Zones of Kashmir Himalayas and**

Chapter 4 **Morpho-Agronomic Variation among Phaseolus vulgaris**

Chapter 5 **Agronomic Performance, Nutritional Phenotyping and Trait**

Chapter 6 **Genetic Potential and Usefulness of Native Maize Populations in Developing Novel Germplasm for Current and**

Froylan Rincon-Sanchez and Norma A. Ruiz-Torres

**Associations of Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus) Genotypes in**

Musibau A. Azeez, Amos O. Adubi and Felicia A. Durodola

Oscar Grillo, Marisol Lo Bianco, Sebastiano Blangiforti, Laura

Chapter 1 **Landraces and Crop Genetic Improvement 3**

**Conservation of Its Landraces 41** Amjad M. Husaini and Sofi NR

**Landraces: A Review 61** Nontuthuko R. Ntuli

**South Africa 71** Abe Shegro Gerrano

**Upcoming Goals 99**
