Edible medicinal and non-medicinal plants. Volume 6, Fruits /
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Author / Creator: | Lim, Tong Kwee. |
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Imprint: | Dordrecht [Netherlands] ; New York : Springer, c2013. |
Description: | 1 online resource : col. ill. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9849826 |
Summary: | This book continues as volume 6 of a multi-compendium on Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants. It covers edible fruits/seeds used fresh, cooked or processed into other by-products, or as vegetables, cereals, spices, stimulant, edible oils and beverages. It covers selected species from the following families: Sapindaceae, Sapotaceae, Schisandraceae, Solanaceae, Thymelaeaceae, Urticaceae, Vitaceae and Winteraceae. This work will be of significant interest to scientists, researchers, medical practitioners, pharmacologists, ethnobotanists, horticulturists, food nutritionists, agriculturists, botanists, conservationists, lecturers, students and the general public. Topics covered include: taxonomy; common/English and vernacular names; origin and distribution; agroecology; edible plant parts and uses; botany; nutritive and pharmacological properties, medicinal uses and research findings; nonedible uses; and selected references. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource : col. ill. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9789400756281 9400756283 9789048186600 9048186609 9789400756274 9400756275 |