New Agricultural Crops

ISBN-13: 9780367021252 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 288 str.

Gary A Ritchie

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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