Economic Botany: Principles and Practices

Acknowledgements.- Preface.- 1. Economic Botany.- 2. Plant Collecting, Taxonomy and Nomenclature.- 3. Environmental Considerations.- 4. Plant Conservation.- 5. Ecophysiology and Allied Disciplines.- 6. Plant Breeding and Propagation.- 7. Marketing of Crops and Crop Products.- 8. Human and Animal Nutrition.- 9. Human Food and Food Additives.- 10. Feed for Livestock.- 11. Food for Bees and other Desirable Invertebrates.- 12. Timber and Wood Products.- 13. Fuel.- 14. Vegetable Fibres.- 15. Phytochemicals.- 16. Human and Veterinary Medicinal Plants.- 17. Plant Toxins and their Applications.- 18. Useful Ferns, Bryophytes, Fungi, Bacteria and Viruses.- 19. Useful Algae.- 20. Environmental Uses.- 21. Social Uses.- 22. At the Start of the 21st Century.- Bibliography.- Taxonomic Index.- Chemical index.- Subject Index.- Figure.- Tables.