Buckwheat: A critical approach towards assessment of its potential as a super crop

Buckwheat has attracted considerable interest amongst the global scientific community due to its nutritional and pharmaceutical properties. It is a low input crop whose cultivation persisted through centuries of civilization in almost every country where cereals were cultivated. The an important source rutin, flavonoid which known have cardioprotective, vasoprotective, antihypertensive, anti-inflammation, cytoprotective anti-diabetic Grains buckwheat are rich protein with balanced amino acid composition, gluten free flour, dietary fibre, vitamins, resistant starch, phytosterols, fagopyrins, fagopyritols phenolic compounds. short season completes life cycle 70-90 days can grow wide range environmental conditions including marginal lands rocky, poorly tilled soils. content flour higher than commonly used such as rice, wheat, millet, sorghum maize. grain lysine arginine, generally limiting other cereals. Because Lys/ Arg Met/Gly ratio, strong hypolipidemic activity. While considered healthy food because nutraceutical properties, yields seed shattering pedicel breaking heterozygosity self-incompatibility consequence dimorphic heterostylism always remained major problems achieving large scale incorporation common (Fagopyrum esculentum) agricultural portfolio. present review highlights multicore potential super meet challenges security.