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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This book offers an up-to-date account of important crops grown worldwide, focusing on their evolutionary aspects and health benefits.This book offers detailed discussion on cultivated plants that produce wheat, rice, fibres, cereals, pulses, vegetable oils, fruits and nuts, vegetables, spices, beverages, wood, rubber and medicine. Each chapter includes relevant description and usage of these important crops. The plants covered have been chosen because of their relevance in the global economy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
