Economic Botany : Principles and Practices /
Unlike most books on economic botany this is not an encyclopedic listing of plants and their uses. Instead it is an attempt at understanding why plants are used. Economic botany is a multidisciplinary study and the purpose of this book is to provide an introduction to some of the scientific principl...
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint : Springer,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- <STRONG>1.</STRONG> Economic Botany
- <STRONG>2.</STRONG> Plant Collecting, Taxonomy and Nomenclature
- <STRONG>3.</STRONG> Environmental Considerations
- <STRONG>4.</STRONG> Plant Conservation
- <STRONG>5.</STRONG> Ecophysiology and Allied Disciplines
- <STRONG>6.</STRONG> Plant Breeding and Propagation
- <STRONG>7.</STRONG> Marketing of Crops and Crop Products
- <STRONG>8.</STRONG> Human and Animal Nutrition
- <STRONG>9.</STRONG> Human Food and Food Additives
- <STRONG>10.</STRONG> Feed for Livestock
- <STRONG>11.</STRONG> Food for Bees and other Desirable Invertebrates
- <STRONG>12.</STRONG> Timber and Wood Products
- <STRONG>13.</STRONG> Fuel
- <STRONG>14.</STRONG> Vegetable Fibres
- <STRONG>15.</STRONG> Phytochemicals
- <STRONG>16.</STRONG> Human and Veterinary Medicinal Plants
- <STRONG>17.</STRONG> Plant Toxins and their Applications
- <STRONG>18.</STRONG> Useful Ferns, Bryophytes, Fungi, Bacteria and Viruses
- <STRONG>19.</STRONG> Useful Algae
- <STRONG>20.</STRONG> Environmental Uses
- <STRONG>21.</STRONG> Social Uses
- <STRONG>22.</STRONG> At the Start of the 21st Century
- Bibliography
- Taxonomic Index
- Chemical index
- Subject Index
- Figure
- Tables.