Crop plants of the tropics and subtropics.
Rehm S., Espig G.
Author Affiliation: Institut für Pflanzenbau und Tierhygiene in den Tropen und Subtropen, Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
: 528 pp.
Abstract : First published in 1976, the revised text provides information on many aspects of the cultivation, economic importance and utilization of a range of crops, which are presented under the following section headings: starch plants (covering cereals such as rice, maize, wheat, barley and sorghum, pseudocereals, and tuber plants such as cassava, sweet potato, yam and potato), sugar plants (mainly sugarcane and sugarbeet), oil plants (covering especially oil palm, coconut palm, other oil-producing palms, soyabean, groundnut, sunflower, sesame, safflower, olive, castor oil plant and tung [Aleurites]), protein plants (in general, and grain legumes in particular), vegetables (in general, and tomatoes, onions and asparagus in particular), fruits (especially grape, citrus fruits, banana, mango, pineapple, papaya, avocado, Annona, guava, passion fruit, litchi, longan and rambutan, date, fig, stone fruits and pome fruits), nuts, beverage and stimulant plants (mainly coffee, tea, cocoa and tobacco), spices, medicinal plants, essential oil plants, fibre plants (mainly cotton, jute, kenaf and roselle, and sisal), rubber plants (especially Hevea and guayule [Parthenium argentatum]), gum and mucilage plants, resins, tan plants, dye plants, pesticidal plants, wax plants (notably jojoba), energy plants, fodder and pasture plants, and auxiliary plants (green manures, ground cover plants, soil-stabilizing plants, windbreak plants, multipurpose plants, and hedgerow and hedging plants). A subject index is appended, with vernacular and Latin plant names.