Economic Botany: Principles And PracticesSpringer Science & Business Media, 31 de març 2004 - 535 pàgines The strength of this book is that it is written by someone who has spent a lifetime devoted to the science of economic botany. The author has brought together his vast experience in the field in Africa with his studies of arid land plants at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The result is an informative and reliable text that covers a vast range of topics. It is also firmly based upon the author's research and interest in plant taxonomy and therefore fully acknowledges the importance of correct naming and classification in the field of science of economic botany. The coverage is of economic botany in its broadest sense. I was delighted to find such topics as ecophysiology, plant breeding, the environment and conservation are included in the text. This gives the book a much more comprehensive coverage than most other texts on the subject. I was also glad to see that the book covers the use of various organisms that are no longer considered part of the plant kingdom such as various species of fungi and algae. It is indeed a broad ranging book that will be of use to many people interested in the uses of plants and fungi. Economic botany is once again being given more prominence as a discipline because of its enormous relevance to both conservation and sustainable development. Those people involved in those topics shOUld find this a most useful resource. |
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Economic Botany | 1 |
Plant Collecting Taxonomy and Nomenclature | 17 |
Environmental Considerations | 43 |
viii | 45 |
Plant Conservation | 57 |
ChapterS Ecophysiology and Allied Disciplines | 65 |
Plant Breeding and Propagation | 105 |
Marketing of Crops and Crop Products | 121 |
Fuel | 251 |
Comparison of net calorific values of woods at different moisture contents FAO source unknown | 256 |
Vegetable Fibres | 263 |
Global fibre production for 1993 FAO 1994 | 264 |
Phytochemicals | 281 |
A selection of commercial gums and their applications Brouk 1976 Anderson 1985 Sharp 1990 | 282 |
Examples of the four classes of vegetable oils and their sources | 296 |
Examples of plant starch grains and their characteristics and uses Doggett 1970 Gohl 1981 Rexen | 307 |
Human and Animal Nutrition | 127 |
Human Food and Food Additives | 151 |
Comparative nutritional values of the pseudocereals and cereals Cole 1979 Gohl 1981 National | 173 |
Global production of raw materials and import export of edible vegetable oils for 1992 FAO 1993a | 185 |
Examples of plant pigments used for food Brouk 1976 Lemmens et al 1991 Green 1995 | 198 |
Feed for Livestock | 209 |
Food for Bees and other Desirable Invertebrates | 223 |
Timber and Wood Products | 229 |
Approximate service life in years based on decay resistance of heartwood in contact with the ground | 235 |
Dimensions and types of wood fibres Eames and MacDaniels 1947 Esau 1953 Kirby 1963 | 241 |
Human and Veterinary Medicinal Plants | 317 |
Plant Toxins and their Applications | 333 |
Useful Ferns Bryophytes Fungi Bacteria and Viruses | 347 |
Useful Algae | 373 |
Environmental Uses | 389 |
Social Uses | 403 |
Bibliography | 423 |
Taxonomic Index | 459 |
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The Baobabs: Pachycauls of Africa, Madagascar and Australia G.E. Wickens Previsualització limitada - 2008 |
Handbook of Food Science, Technology, and Engineering, Volum 2 Yiu H. Hui Previsualització no disponible - 2006 |