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 /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
1985.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1985. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6830-4 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.