Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Nutritive Value of Black Cumin (Nigella sativa L.)
(Pier Giorgio Peiretti, Institute of Sciences of Food Production, National Research Council, Grugliasco, Italy)

Chapter 2. Antioxidant, Anticancer, Antimicrobial Effects of Nigella sativa Seeds and Its Pharmacological Uses
(Heba I. Mohamed, Mohamed Moustafa-Farag, Hossam S. El-Beltagi, Naglaa A. Ashry, Eman M. Fawzi, Hanaa H. El-Shazly, Abdelfattah Badr and Maged M. Abou El-Enain, Biological and Geological Sciences Department, Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, and others)

Chapter 3. Therapeutic Potentials of Nigella sativa Major Component: Thymoquinone
(Sunita Singh, Navyug Kanya Mahavidyalaya, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India)

Chapter 4. Influence of Plant Density and Fertilization on Yield and Crude Protein of Nigella sativa L.: An Alternative Forage and Feed Source
(Ioannis E. Roussis, Ioanna Kakabouki, Eleni Tsiplakou, and Dimitrios Bilalis, Laboratory of Agronomy, Department of Crop Science, School of Plant Sciences, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece, and others)

Index