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Economic Botany

Principles and Practices

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  • © 2001

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  1. Gerald E. Wickens
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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Economic Botany

    • Gerald E. Wickens
    Pages 1-16

  3. Plant Collecting, Taxonomy and Nomenclature

    • Gerald E. Wickens
    Pages 17-42

  4. Environmental Considerations

    • Gerald E. Wickens
    Pages 43-56

  5. Plant Conservation

    • Gerald E. Wickens
    Pages 57-64

  6. Ecophysiology and Allied Disciplines

    • Gerald E. Wickens
    Pages 65-103

  7. Plant Breeding and Propagation

    • Gerald E. Wickens
    Pages 105-120

  8. Marketing of Crops and Crop Products

    • Gerald E. Wickens
    Pages 121-126

  9. Human and Animal Nutrition

    • Gerald E. Wickens
    Pages 127-149

  10. Human Food and Food Additives

    • Gerald E. Wickens
    Pages 151-207

  11. Feed for Livestock

    • Gerald E. Wickens
    Pages 209-222

  12. Food for Bees and other Desirable Invertebrates

    • Gerald E. Wickens
    Pages 223-228

  13. Timber and Wood Products

    • Gerald E. Wickens
    Pages 229-250

  14. Fuel

    • Gerald E. Wickens
    Pages 251-261

  15. Vegetable Fibres

    • Gerald E. Wickens
    Pages 263-279

  16. Phytochemicals

    • Gerald E. Wickens
    Pages 281-315

  17. Human and Veterinary Medicinal Plants

    • Gerald E. Wickens
    Pages 317-331

  18. Plant Toxins and their Applications

    • Gerald E. Wickens
    Pages 333-346

  19. Useful Ferns, Bryophytes, Fungi, Bacteria and Viruses

    • Gerald E. Wickens
    Pages 347-372

  20. Useful Algae

    • Gerald E. Wickens
    Pages 373-388
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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.

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"A wealth of current information is presented in this scholarly work, and there are 28 appropriate data tables. Very extensive bibliography; taxonomic, chemical and subject indexes. Highly recommended for libraries with readers interested in plants and their impact on civilization."
(Choice, 39:07)

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