Economic Botany Of Crop Plants

Economic Botany of Crop Plants is an exhaustive treatment ofCrop Plants world wide giving details of Origin, DistributionBotany of the plant, Cytogenertics, Cultural methods of theproduct, Economic use of the product, Varieries of the crop aregiven in a systematic manner for each crop plant. Book is amplyillustrated. Exhaustive appendices for Questions. InstitutesJournals, Glossary related to economic botany are given at the endof the book. The earlier edition of the book (1989) has beenreviewed in International journals like:" Economic Botany (New York, USA)" Taxon. (California, USA)" New Zeland Journal of BotanyIn a praiseworthy way, and also by eminent Professors like:" R.E. Schultres (Harvard University, USA) " Vame Grant (Texas University, USA)" B.B. Simpson (Texas University, USA)The book is greatly useful to students of Botany, Agriculture, Pharmacy, Medicine,Plants and Human Welfare, Biotechnology and Environmental Sciences and Forestrydoing B.Sc. and M.Sc. courses of all Universities.

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.

"Provides vivid information about the history of plant exploration, migration, domestication, distribution and crop improvement"--

Contents: Origins of Agriculture, Foods from Leaves, Stems, and Roots, Forest Products: Wood and Cork, Fibres, Fruits of Warm Regions, Fruits of Temperate Regions, Medicinal Plants, Tanning and Due Materials, Sugars and Starches, Industrial Plants: Rubber and Other Latex Products, Beverage Plants and Beverages, Drugs and Poisons from Plants, Gums and Resins, Smoking Materials, Grains, Legumes, Fats and Oils, Essential Oils.

For The Students of B.Sc. , M.Sc. and Competitive Examinations

This one-semester text is designed for an upper level botany course. Plants in our World emphasizes how people use plants; including fundamental information on morphology, anatomy, and taxonomy as a foundation of general botany. Now in full color, the fourth edition includes molecular data that has immensely altered the understanding of relationships among flowering plants and recently pinpointed the origin of numerous crops. Taxonomy of species has been updated to discuss the system of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.

Introduction; Industrial plants and plant products; Drug plants and drugs; Food plants; Food adjuncts.

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.