Plants for Arid Lands Proceedings of the Kew International Conference on Economic Plants for Arid Lands held in the Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, 23-27 July 1984 - Wickens, G.E.; Field, David. V.; Goodin, Joe R.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1985)
Background -- 1. The needs of the people -- 2. The arid environment -- Food -- 3. Wild desert relatives of crops: their direct uses as food -- 4. Crops for arid lands -- 5. The nutritional composition of Australian Aboriginal food plants of the desert regions -- 6. Khoisan Food plants: taxa with potential for future economic exploitation -- 7. Food plants of prehistoric and predynastic Egypt -- Timber, Fuel and Forage -- 8. Place and role of trees and shrubs in dry areas -- 9. Prosopis tamarugo in the Chilean Atacama - ecophysiological and reforestation aspects -- 10. Forage and fuel plants in the arid zone of North Africa, the Near and Middle East -- 11. Forage and browse - the northern Australian experience -- 12. Bees and honey in the exploitation of arid land resources -- Plants for the Environment -- 13. Economic halophytes - a global review -- 14. Present and potential economic usages of palms in arid and semi-arid areas -- 15. Plants for conservation of soil and water in arid ecosystems -- 16. Nitrogen fixation in arid environments -- National Studies -- 17. The potential for the commercial utilization of indigenous plants in Botswana -- 18. Ecodevelopment of arid lands in India with non-agricultural economic plants - a holistic approach -- 19. Sonic indigenous economic plants of the Sultanate of Oman -- 20. The ecological role of plant resources in the arid regions of China -- 21. Plants of the Australian arid zone - an undeveloped potential -- Work of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew -- 22. Wild and semi-cultivated legumes as potential sources of resistance to bruchid beetles for crop breeders: a study of Vigna/Phaseolus -- 23. Seed banks: a useful tool in conservative plant evaluation and exploitation -- 24. The potential for the in vitro preparation of a number of economically important plants for arid areas -- Biochemicals -- 25. Gums and resins, and factors influencing their economic development -- 26. Resins from Grindelia: a model for renewable resources in arid environments -- 27. Plant hydrocarbon resources in arid and semi-arid lands -- 28. Unconventional arid land plants as biomass feedstocks for energy -- 29. Rubber and phytochemical specialities from desert plants in North America -- Information Services -- 30. Plant information service for economic plants of arid lands -- Taxonomic index -- General index.
Keywords: Plant science; Botany; Agriculture; Plant systematics; Plant taxonomy; Plant Sciences; Agriculture; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.