Gary A Ritchie

New Agricultural Crops (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429727481
• Artikelnr.: 55745012

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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