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Crop resources : proceedings of the 17th annual meeting of the Society for Economic Botany, the University of Illinois, Urbana, June 13-17, 1976 /
Crop Resources contains papers that were originally presented as a symposium on Crop Resources at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany in Urbana, Illinois, 13-17 June 1976. The volume attempts to evaluate (a) the possible nonfood uses of cultivated plants; (b) the extent to whi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Academic Press,
1977.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Front Cover; Crop Resources; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1. POTENTIAL WEALTH IN NEW CROPS: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; I. INTRODUCTION; II. NEW CROPS RESEARCH; III. CROP DEVELOPMENT; IV. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION; V. REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2. PLANT INTRODUCTIONS-A SOURCE OF NEW CROPS; I. INTRODUCTION; II. DISCUSSION AND FUTURE PROSPECTS; III. REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3. NONFOOD USES FOR COMMERICAL VEGETABLE OIL CROPS; I. INTRODUCTION; II. THE FATS AND OILS INDUSTRY; III. VEGETABLE OILS AND DERIVED FATTY ACIDS; IV. VEGETABLE OILS AS RENEWABLE RESOURCES.
- v. industrial marketsvi. future markets; vii. references; chapter 4. new industrial potentials for carbohydrates; i. introduction; ii. references; chapter 5. the current importance of plants as a source of drugs; i. introduction; ii. importance of plant drugs in other countries; iii. importance of drug plants in the united states; iv. non-drug biologically active plant substances; v. current level of world-wide research on plant-derived drugs; vi. summary; vii. references; chapter 6. potentials for development of wild plants as row crops for use by man; i. references.
- Chapter 7. recent evidence in support of the tropical origin of new world cropsi. introduction; ii. families of plants with crops of new world origin; iii. early agricultural techniques; iv. references; chapter 8. requirements for a green revolution; chapter 9. how green can a revolution be; reference; chapter 10. increasing cereal yields: evolution under domestication; i. introduction; ii. increasing yield under domestication; iii. breeding for yield increase; iv. references; chapter 11. hevea rubber: past and future; i. introduction; ii. hevea moves to asia; iii. genetic improvement.
- Iv. hevea rebounds to tropical america and to africav. the rubber crisis of world war ii; vi. rubber company research and development; vii. future of hevea; viii. research needs; ix. references; chapter 12. horseradish-problems and research in illinois; i. introduction; ii. culture; iii. breeding; iv. diseases; v. insects; vi. processing; vii. storage; viii. future; ix. references; chapter 13. dioscorea-the pill crop; i. introduction; iii. references; chapter 14. plant derivatives for insect control; i. important plant derived insecticides.
- Ii. botanical insecticides as models for structural optimizationiii. references; chapter 15. evolutionary dynamics of sorghum domestication; i. taxonomy; ii. progenitors of cultivated sorghums; iii. the domestication process; iv. morphological changes associated with domestication; v. conclusions; vi. references; chapter 16. the origin and future of wheat; i. references; chapter 17. current thoughts on origins, present status and future of soybeans; i. current thoughts on origins and the introduction of the soybean into the united states.