Economic Botany
eBook - PDF

Economic Botany

A Comprehensive Study

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Economic Botany

A Comprehensive Study

About this book

This book offers an up-to-date account of important crops grown worldwide. It provides detailed discussion on the history of plant exploration, migration, domestication and distribution, and crop improvement. The text starts with the origin and diversification of cultivated plants, followed by discussion on tropical, subtropical and temperate crops that are sources of food, beverages, spices and medicines, as well as plant insecticides, timber plants and essential oil-yielding plants. The genetic and evolutionary aspects of different plants and their health benefits are highlighted. The book covers topics dealing with biodiversity conservation, petro-crops, ethnobotanical studies, and important sub-tropical and temperate plants that have commercial importance. The significance of major plant species under each category is described in detail. Illustrated with numerous well-labelled line diagrams and pictures, this book will be useful for students of botany, food and nutrition, forestry, agriculture, horticulture, plant breeding and environmental science.

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Yes, you can access Economic Botany by S. L. Kochhar in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Botany. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Chapter 1: Introduction
  10. Chapter 2: Fibres and Fibre Yielding Plants
  11. Chapter 3: Cereal Crops
  12. Chapter 4: Sugars, Starches and Cellulose Products
  13. Chapter 5: Legumes or Pulses
  14. Chapter 6: Vegetable Oils and Fats
  15. Chapter 7: Fruits and Nuts
  16. Chapter 8: Vegetables
  17. Chapter 9: Spices, Condiments and Other Flavourings
  18. Chapter 10: Fumitory and Masticatory Materials
  19. Chapter 11: Beverages
  20. Chapter 12: Wood and its Uses
  21. Chapter 13: Vegetable Tannins and Dyestuffs
  22. Chapter 14: Rubber
  23. Chapter 15: Medicinal Plants
  24. Chapter 16: Insecticides and Herbicides
  25. Chapter 17: Essential Oil Yielding Plants
  26. Chapter 18: Plant Diversity and its Conservation
  27. Chapter 19: Petrocrops: Our Future Fuels
  28. Chapter 20: Ethnobotany: An Integrated Approach
  29. References
  30. Index