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