Underutilized and Underexploited Horticultural Crops Vol. V

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Contents Devotion Foreword Prem Nath Acknowledgement Preface List of Contributors I Vegetables and tubers 1 Capsicum chinense Jacq Mali Mulaku P Indira 2 Minor greens and salads C Mini 3 Future leaf vegetables B Varalakshmi 4 Vigna dalzelliama O Kuntzc Verdc A wild legume from Eastern Ghats of Peninsular India L Rama Murthy and D Thangadourai 5 White Yam Dioscorea rotundata Poir Oyetunzi and Olusola Jacob II Fruits 6 Underutilized Nut Fruits of Hills G Pandey D Pandey and SK Shukla 7 Lesser known edible fruits of North Eastern India RK Patel LC De Akath Singh and C Bidyut Deka 8 Breadfruit Artocarpus altilis Park Sarah T George and PS Manoj 9 Nectarine a new promising fruit crop for mid hills Jayant Kumar and Kishore Khosla 10 Pecan nut JM Badyal and SK Upadhyay 11 Persimmon Diospyros kaki Thunb Kazutoshi Hamada 12 Aonla Emblica officinalis Gaertn Value added products Pareek Sunil 13 Jack fruit Artocarpus heterophyllus Nutritional data medicinal values and uses Sudha George Valavi and Lisa Thottapilly III Ornamental Plants 14 Cleome gynandra nutritional and medicinal properties E Van Den Heever SL Venter and WS Jansen Van Rensburg 15 Ornamentals for essentials oils A Sobhana IV Medicinal Plants 16 Sambucus nigra L in Catalonia Iberian Peninsula Joan Valles Maria Angels Bonet Teresa Garnatje Joan Muntane Montse Parada and Montse Rigat 17 Underutilized medicinal plants of Uttarakhand Hills Shailesh Tripathi and VK Sah 18 Seabuckthorn a new underutilized fruit crops Brahma Singh From the Foreword Globally there is concern for diminishing nutritional security Land under agriculture is dwindling water for irrigation becoming scarce and costly and availability of labour getting lesser the need for future crops and alternate source of nutrition is getting attention Under CGIAR an all inclusive future crops international has been established to bring to light under exploited and underutilized crops Horticultural crops especially vegetables fruits ornamentals medicinal plants and aromatic plants are unique in presence of a large number of plants with possibility for edible uses and considerable nutritive value Many are wild weeds in one part of the globe but edible and consumed in another part of the globe A few such plants are used for phytosanitation and phytoremediation but are getting attention as raw materials for biofuel production Energy and water are two natural resources getting threat due to climate change resulting global warming and ozone depletion 474 pp.

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Título

Underutilized and Underexploited Horticultural Crops Vol. V

Editor

New India Pub

Fecha de publicación

2010

Idioma

Inglés

ISBN 10

9380235283

ISBN 13

9789380235288

Encuadernación

Hardcover

Ilustrador

34 col. plates, tables, figs

Estado

As New

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