Economic botany : plants in our world / Beryl Brintnall Simpson, Molly Conner-Ogorzaly
Digitised Book 216.73.216.191 (0)
1986
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This text provides detailed coverage of the major uses of plants in America today, with focus on species of major economic importance in the United States.
Additional Details
- Title
- Economic botany : plants in our world / Beryl Brintnall Simpson, Molly Conner-Ogorzaly
- Creators
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- Simpson, Beryl Brintnall
- Subject
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- Botany, Economic--United States
- Botany, Economic
- Publisher
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- McGraw-Hill, 1986
- National Library Board Singapore, 1986
- Contributors
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- Conner-Ogorzaly, Molly
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, ill.
- Table of Contents
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- Preface -- 1. Features of flowering plants and their products -- 2. The nature of variation in plants -- 3. Origins of agriculture -- 4. fruits and nuts of temperate regions -- 5. Fruits and nuts of warm regions -- 6. Grains and forage grasses -- 7. Legumes -- 8. Foods from leaves, stems, and roots -- 9. Spices, herbs, and perfumes -- 10. Vegetable oils and waxes -- 11. Hydrogels, clastic latexes, and resins -- 12. Plants in medicine -- 13. Psychoactive drugs and poisons from plants -- 14. Stimulating beverages -- 15. Alcoholic beverages -- 16. Fibers, dyes, and tannins -- 17. Wood, cork, and bamboo -- 18. Ornamental plants -- 19. The uses of plants in the future -- Index.
- Edition
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- International ed.
- Copyright
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- All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.