. Quinoa is not a true cereal grain, but rather is a pseudocereal, which is dicotyledonous. In contrast, cereals are monocotyledonous (Valencia-Chamorro, 2003). Quinoa has risen from a neglected subsistence crop of indigenous farmers to become a major export of the Andean nations of Bolivia and Peru within the past 20 years (Jellen et al., 2011). The emergence of quinoa to prominence in organic food markets of the developed world has led to scientists giving increasing attention to the crop’s unique nutritional benefits, and potentially novel abiotic stress-tolerance
mechanisms.