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Pseudocereals and Less Common Cereals

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Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd) is a pseudocereal of the Chenopodiaceae family, native to the Andean region of South America. It is a functionally diploid grain (2n = 36), one of 200 species in the genus [1]. Other related grain chenopods are to be found in Mexico, around Lake Titicaca in Bolivia and Peru, and in the Himalayan region [2].

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Taylor, J.R.N., Parker, M.L. (2002). Quinoa. In: Pseudocereals and Less Common Cereals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09544-7_3

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