New Agricultural Crops

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-02125-2
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 523 g

Current and projected worldwide shortages of energy, fertilizer, and irrigation water, coupled with a rapidly expanding population, are prompting agricultural scientists to seek, identify, and develop new crop species. Such crops should be energy- and water-efficient, well adapted to marginal lands, suited to intensive culture, and productive of ma

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ritchie, Gary A

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface -- Introduction -- Ancient Crops for the Twenty-first Century -- The Winged Bean as an Agricultural Crop -- Amaranth -- The Buffalo Gourd -- Mesquite -- Atriplex as a Forage Crop for Arid Lands -- Cassia -- Guayule -- Jojoba -- Leucaena

Über Autor(innen)

Gary A. Ritchie is research project leader in the Western Forestry Research Center of the Weyerhaeuser Company.