S L Kochhar

Economic Botany

A Comprehensive Study

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an up-to-date account of important crops grown worldwide, focusing on their evolutionary aspects and health benefits.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 5th edition
• Seitenzahl: 680
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 194mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1232g
• ISBN-13: 9781107112940
• ISBN-10: 110711294X
• Artikelnr.: 44825756

Autorenporträt

S. L. Kochhar taught Economic Botany and Plant Physiology at Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, University of Delhi for more than four decades (1965-2007). His areas of interest are botany, plant science, tropical crops and plant physiology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of tables
List of figures
1. Introduction
2. Fibre and fibre-yielding plants
3. Cereal crops
4. Sugars, starches, and cellulose products
5. Legumes or pulses
6. Vegetable oils and fats
7. Fruits and nuts
8. Vegetables
9. Spices, condiments and other flavourings
10. Fumitory and masticatory materials
11. Beverages
12. Wood and its uses
13. Vegetable tannins and dyestuffs
14. Rubber
15. Medicinal plants
16. Insecticides and herbicides
17. Essential oil-yielding plants
18. Plant diversity and its conservation
19. Petrocrops: our future fuels
20. Ethnobotany
General references
Suggested supplementary readings
Index.