World Economic Plants : A Standard Reference, Second Edition

✍ Scribed by León, Blanca; Wiersema, John H

Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 1338
Edition: 2nd ed
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

""Not only will readers find useful plants such as marigolds and com, they will also discover plants that have a negative economic impact, including noxious weeds and poisonous species. ... beneficial to multilingual researchers or researchers working in culturally diverse departments. As a reference intended for experts, it has a place in agronomy, agriculture, botany, and specialized economic libraries. ... Read more...

Abstract: ""Not only will readers find useful plants such as marigolds and com, they will also discover plants that have a negative economic impact, including noxious weeds and poisonous species. ... beneficial to multilingual researchers or researchers working in culturally diverse departments. As a reference intended for experts, it has a place in agronomy, agriculture, botany, and specialized economic libraries. ... Recommended.""-J. Clemons, State University of New York-ESF for CHOICE Magazine, March 2014""... useful as a reputable source of this kind of concentrated information, in handbook fashion. It i

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front cover
table of contents
foreword
introduction
discussion of content
symbols and abbreviations
references cited
acknowledgments
list of reviewers
catalog of economic plants
index of common names in latin script
index of arabic common names
index of chinese common names
index of greek common names
index of hebrew common names
index of japanese common names
index of korean common names
index of russian common names
back cover

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