Aboriginal People and their Plants

Philip A Clarke

This book will provide an overview of indigenous relationships to plants in Aboriginal Australia. The impetus for the book is largely drawn from the establishment of the new ....

African Traditional Plant Knowledge Today

An ethnobotanical study of the Digo at the Kenya Coast

Mohamed Pakia

The book is an unusually exploration of the ethnobotanical study, through interdisciplinary approach, that combines linguistics, botany and anthropological ....

Amazon River Fruits

Flavors for Conservation

Nigel Smith, R Vasquez and WH Wust

The western Amazon may well be the single richest edible fruit region in the world, and most of this flavorful biodiversity is found in wetlands. Some of wetland fruits are ....

An Ancient Egyptian Herbal

Lise Manniche

The ancient Egyptians were highly skilled in the use of herbs and spices for medicines, cooking, cosmetics, perfumes and many other purposes. This work provides an account of ....

Atlas of the Medicinal Plants of Russia

VA Bykov

Deals with approx. 200 medicinal plants, colour photo of each plant, description of properties, pharmacological or chemotherapeutic activities, pharmaceutical forms, ....

Cereals and Millets

Edited by Chittaranjan Kole

Cereals and Millets form the leading group of field crops, providing staple food for most of the earth's population. This volume, with contributions by 27 eminent ....

Characterization of the Cellulosic Cell Wall

Edited by Doug Stokke

Plant biomass resources are seen as a vast reservoir of potential to be unlocked as sustainable fiber, fuel and chemical feedstock for the 21st century. Vital to the ....

The Chocolate Tree

A Natural History of Cacao

Allen M Young

Young provides an overview of the fascinating natural and human history of one of the world's most intriguing commodities: chocolate. Cultivated for over 1,000 years in Latin ....

Chumash Ethnobotany

Native Uses of Plants in the Santa Barbara Region

Jan Timbrook

A catalogue of plants with information culled from published sources about Chumash knowledge and use. ....

A Color Atlas of Diseases of Lettuce and Related Salad Crops

Edited by Dominique Blancard, H Lot and B Maisonneuve

Following the worldwide success of Dr. Blancard's volumes on Tomato Diseases and Cuncurbit Diseases, the author and his colleagues have produced a further indispensable ....

Compendia of World's Medicinal Flora

Amritpal Singh

Alternative systems of medicine (Ayurveda, Siddha, Homoepathy, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medcila Herbalism) utilizes medicinal plants for formulations. The ....

Costa Rica: Medicinal Plants

Anabelle Maffioli and Julio C Sanchez

Laminated fold out pocket guide with illustrations of medicinal plants commonly found in Costa Rica. Descriptions of common uses in both English and Spanish are given. ....

Culinary Herbs

Ernest Small

This book is a comprehensive reference guide to herb and spice plants that are cultivated in Canada and the northern half of the United States for the purpose of ....

Darwin's Harvest: New Approaches to the Origins, Evolution, and Conservation of Crops

Edited by Timothy J Motley, Nyree Zerega and Hugh Cross

Evolutionary biologists, geneticists, molecular biologists, and anthropologists address concerns that we are losing the diversity of crop plants that provide food for most of ....

The Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru

Margaret A Towle

Originally published in 1961 by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. ....

Food for Free

Richard Mabey

A complete guide to help you safely identify edible species that grow around us, together with detailed artworks, field identification notes and recipes. ....

Fundamentals of Weed Science

Robert L Zimdahl

This book addresses herbicides and their use as an important aspect of modern weed management,and strives to place them in an ecological framework. Many weed scientists ....

Global Biopiracy

Patents, Plants, and Indigenous Knowledge

Ikechi Mgbeoji

Legal control and ownership of plants and traditional knowledge of the uses of plants (TKUP) is often a vexed issue. The phenomenon of appropriation of plants and TKUP, ....

Guía Etnobotánica de los Alimentos Locales Recolectados en la Provincia de Albacete

Edited by D Rivera et al

Handbook of Herbs and Spices Volume 3

Edited by KV Peter et al

Herbs

Challenges in Chemistry and Biology of Herbs

Edited by Mingfu Wang et al

Herbs have been widely used for centuries to promote good health and treat disease in Asian countries. Indeed, the general population of both Eastern and Western countries ....

Herbal Products

Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacology

Edited by Timothy S Tracy and Richard L Kingston

Herbal Products: Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacology, Second Edition builds on the informative foundation laid by its predecessor. This fully revised and expanded second ....

Herbal Plants of Jamaica

Monica Warner

Jamaican society has retained a particularly vibrant tradition of folk herbal (bush) medicine. The cache of native plants and practices used by the island's original ....

Histories of Maize

Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Prehistory, Linguistics, Biogeography, Domestication, and Evolution of Maize

Edited by John Staller, Robert Tykot and Bruce Benz

Maize has been described as a primary catalyst to complex sociocultural development in the Americas. State of the art research on maize chronology, molecular biology, and ....

The Identification of Medicinal Plants

A Handbook of the Morphology of Botanicals in Commerce

Wendy Applequist

This work describes morphological characteristics used to identify species of botanicals, specifically those that can be observed with a hand lens or dissecting ....

Insects and Mites Feeding on Olive

Distribution, Importance, Habits, Seasonal Development and Dormancy

M E Tzanakakis

This review of literature includes an introduction on the origin of the olive tree and lists 116 species of insects and 30 species of mites known to infest it. It treats the ....

An Introduction to Plant Breeding

Peter Caligari and Jack Brown

A knowledge of how plants are bred is absolutely essential to all crop and plant scientists and is an integral part of all agriculture and plant sciences undergraduate ....

International Rules for Seed Testing

Edition 2007

International Seed Testing Association

The 'International Rules for Seed Testing' are ISTA's primary instrument to promote uniformity in seed testing. The ISTA Rules have 17 sections that provide definitions and ....

Keeping it Living

Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America

Edited by Douglas Deur and Nancy J Turner

The European explorers who first visited the Northwest Coast of North America assumed that the entire region was virtually untouched wilderness whose occupants used the land ....

Lost Crops of Africa, Volume 2: Vegetables

National Research Council

This report is the second in a series of three evaluating underexploited African plant resources that could help broaden and secure Africa's food supply. The volume describes ....

Medicinal and Aromatic Crops

Harvesting, Drying, and Processing

Edited by Serdar Oztekin and Milan Martinov

Presents harvest and post-harvest mechanization methods for the profitable production of market-ready medicinal crops. This practical handbook includes photos, detailed figures, ....

Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

Agricultural, commercial, ecological, legal, pharmacological and social aspects

Edited by Robert J Bogers, Lyle E Craker and Dagmar Lange

This book presents the opinions of an international panel of specialists that explored the agricultural, commercial, ecological, legal, pharmacological and social future of ....

Medicinal Plants

Chemistry and Properties

M Daniel

In-depth knowledge of the chemistry of medicinal plants is essential in understanding the manifold utilities of such plants; and to enhance our understanding of the quality ....

Medicinal Plants of Asia and the Pacific

Christophe Wiart

Covers all aspects of botany, ethnology, pharmacology, toxicology, pharmacy and medicine, and presents all important classes of natural products, classified by their ....

Mint

The Genus Mentha

Edited by Brian M Lawrence

This reference on mint serves as the first comprehensive review of these commercially important essential oils, which have a long history of use in flavoring and medicine. ....

Natural Products from Plants

Edited by Leland J Cseke, Ara Kirakosyan et al

Second edition brings together relevant, practical information about various types of natural products produced by plants and their uses in today's world. With six new ....

Oilseeds

Oilseeds is devoted to oil-producing field crops such as soybeans, oilseed rape, peanuts, sunflowers, Indian mustard, Brassica rapa, black mustard and flax. While the ....

Plant Conservation

An Ecosystem Approach

Alan Hamilton and Patrick Hamilton

A comprehensive guide to plant conservation for layperson and professional, addressing major aspects of contemporary plant conservation, covering sociological, economic and ....

Les Plantes et les Medicaments

L Girre

Describes and illustrates 230 plants used in therapies and cures. ....

Plant Resources of Tropical Africa, Volume 14

Vegetable Oils

Edited by HAM van der Vossen and GS Mkamilo

Plant Resources of Tropical Africa, Volume 1

Cereals and Pulses

Edited by M Brink and G Belay

Poisonous Plants

Global Research and Solutions

Edited by KE Panter, TL Wierenga and JA Pfister

Despite decades of research, poisonous plants continue to be responsible for large economic losses to livestock producers throughout the world. As the expansion into rural ....

Pomegranates

Ancient Roots to Modern Medicine

Edited by Navindra P Seeram and David Heber

While one may not find ancient studies that substantiate the pomegranate's curative and preventive qualities, the exalted status of this fruit goes back as far as the history ....

Postharvest

An Introduction to the Physiology and Handling of Fruit, Vegetables and Ornamentals

R Wills et al

Effective postharvest handling is critical in maintaining the quality and freshness of crops from the time when they are harvested to when they are sold to the consumer. ....

Postharvest Pathogens and Disease Management

P Narayanasamy

Postharvest diseases caused by microbial pathogens account for millions of dollars in losses of both durable and perishable produce products every year. Moreover, with ....

Pulses, Sugar and Tuber Crops

Edited by Chittaranjan Kole

Pulses, Sugar and Tuber Crops includes reviews in 15 chapters contributed by 47 eminent scientists from 10 countries. The chapters on common bean, pea, cowpea, sugarcane and ....

Recent Progress in Medicinal Plants, Volume 11: Drug Development from Molcules

JN Govil, VK Singh and C Arunachalam

Recent Progress in Medicinal Plants, Volume 12: Globalisation of Herbal Health

AK Sharma, VK Singh, JN Govil and NK Goyal

Recent Progress in Medicinal Plants, Volume 13: Search for Natural Drugs

JN Govil, VK Singh and C Arunchalam

Recent Progress in Medicinal Plants, Volume 14: Biopharmaceuticals

JN Govil, VK Singh and K Ahmad

Recent Progress in Medicinal Plants, Volume 15: Natural Products I

VK Singh, JN Govil, K Ahmad and RK Sharma

Recent Progress in Medicinal Plants, Volume 16: Phytomedicines

JN Govil, VK Singh and R Bhardwaj

Recent Progress in Medicinal Plants, Volume 17: Phytochemistry and Pharmacology III

VK Singh, JN Govil and C Arunachalam

Recent Progress in Medicinal Plants, Volume 18: Natural Products II

JN Govil, VK Singh and NT Siddiqui

Rights to Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge

Basic Issues and Perspectives

Edited by S Biber-Klemm and T Cottier

This book discusses the means, instruments and institutions needed to create incentives to promote the conservation and sustainable use of traditional knowledge and plant ....

Saffron (Crocus Sativus): Production and Processing

Edited by M Kafi et al

Saffron is a precious spice which is mainly grown in Iran, India, Spain, Greece, Italy, Pakistan, Morocco, and central Asian countries. This book presents a comprehensive ....

Sesame

The Genus Sesamum

Dorothea Bedigian

The first comprehensive review of sesame and its close relative, Sesame: the genus Sesamum covers ethnographic data, modern use, linguistic analysis of sesame names ....

Successful Grape Growing for Eating and Wine-making

A Practical Gardener's Guide for Varieties, Husbandry, Harvesting and Processing

Alan Rowe and Ernest List

Taiwanese Native Medicinal Plants

Phytopharmacology and Therapeutic Values

Thomas SC Li

Presents information critical to assessing the medicinal potential of Taiwanese herbs. This book focuses on documentation of the chemical components present and their ....

Taxonomy and Ecology of African Plants, their Conservation and Sustainable Use

Proceedings of the 17th AETFAT Congress, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Edited by Shahina Ghazanfar, A and Henk J Beentje

Based on the proceedings of the 17th AETFAT Congress held in Addis Abbaba, Ethiopia, this book brings together sixty research papers in separate sections on taxonomy, ....

Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Disease

Management, molecular biology, breeding for resistance

Edited by Henryk Czosnek

This book will awaken the interest of breeders, phytopathologists, environmentalists, extension services, plant virologists, entomologists and molecular biologists. It deals ....

Travelling Cultures and Plants

The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Migrations

Edited by Andrea Pieroni and Ina Vandebroek

The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are not only bringing along challenging issues for society, especially related to the ....

Turmeric

The Genus Curcuma

Edited by P Ravindran, K Nirmal Babu and K Sivaraman

Edited by experts from India, turmeric's largest exporter, this is the first volume to explore the history, production, chemical constituents, market trends, and medical uses ....

Valuing Crop Biodiversity

On-Farm Genetic Resources and Economic Change

Edited by M Smale

This book examines the challenges faced by farmers trying to maintain crop biodiversity in developing and transitional economies. Using a collection of empirical case studies ....

Vegetable Brassicas and Related Crucifers

GR Dixon

Vegetable Brassica crops offer mankind the greatest diversity of useful products provided by any single plant genus. They deliver leaves, flowers, stems and roots used ....

The Whole Story

Alternative Medicine On Trial?

T Murcott

Alternative medicine is a fifty billion dollar per year industry. But is it all nonsense? The Whole Story rounds up the latest evidence on the placebo effect, the ....

Wild Food

Raymond Mears and Gordon C Hillman

In Wild Foods Ray Mears and Gordon Hillman lead us into the wildest parts of Britain to demonstrate the huge variety of indigenous foods that can be found. One of the most ....

Wood

Identification and Use

Terry Porter

This unique encyclopedia brings together a remarkable amount of practical information on the world's most important timbers: from abura to ziricote. Aimed squarely at the ....