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Plants for Arid Lands

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    Chapter 1 The needs of the people
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    Chapter 2 The arid environment
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    Chapter 3 Wild desert relatives of crops: their direct uses as food
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    Chapter 4 Crops for arid lands
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    Chapter 5 The nutritional composition of Australian Aboriginal food plants of the desert regions
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    Chapter 6 Khoisan food plants: taxa with potential for future economic exploitation
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    Chapter 7 Food plants of prehistoric and predynastic Egypt
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    Chapter 8 Place and role of trees and shrubs in dry areas
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    Chapter 9 Prosopis tamarugo in the Chilean Atacama — ecophysiological and reforestation aspects
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    Chapter 10 Forage and fuel plants in the arid zone of North Africa, the Near and Middle East
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    Chapter 11 Forage and browse — the northern Australian experience
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    Chapter 12 Bees and honey in the exploitation of arid land resources
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    Chapter 13 Economic halophytes — a global review
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    Chapter 14 Present and potential economic usages of palms in arid and semi-arid areas
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    Chapter 15 Plants for conservation of soil and water in arid ecosystems
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    Chapter 16 Nitrogen fixation in arid environments
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    Chapter 17 The potential for the commercial utilisation of indigenous plants in Botswana
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    Chapter 18 Ecodevelopment of arid lands in India with non-agricultural economic plants — a holistic approach
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    Chapter 19 Some indigenous economic plants of the Sultanate of Oman
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    Chapter 20 The ecological role of plant resources in the arid regions of China
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    Chapter 21 Plants of the Australian arid zone — an undeveloped potential
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    Chapter 22 Wild and semi-cultivated legumes as potential sources of resistance to bruchid beetles for crop breeder: a study of Vigna/Phaseolus
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    Chapter 23 Seed banks: a useful tool in conservative plant evaluation and exploitation
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    Chapter 24 The potential for the in vitro propagation of a number of economically important plants for arid areas
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    Chapter 25 Gums and resins, and factors influencing their economic development
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    Chapter 26 Resins from Grindelia: a model for renewable resources in arid environments
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    Chapter 27 Plant hydrocarbon resources in arid and semi-arid lands
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    Chapter 28 Unconventional arid land plants as biomass feedstocks for energy
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    Chapter 29 Rubber and phytochemical specialities from desert plants of North America
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    Chapter 30 Plant information services for economic plants of arid lands
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Title
Plants for Arid Lands
Published by
Springer Netherlands, January 1985
DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-6830-4
ISBNs
978-0-04-445330-7, 978-9-40-116830-4
Editors

G. E. Wickens, J. R. Goodin, D. V. Field

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Country Count As %
Unknown 11 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 2 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 9%
Unknown 8 73%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 9%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 1 9%
Engineering 1 9%
Unknown 8 73%