02148nam a2200277Ia 4500 OSt 20250807101544.0 210210b2007 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 978-0792367819 Aloy eng 581.6 23 WICE Gerald E Wickens 19433 Economic Botany : Principles and Pracitces New Delhi Springer 2007 xiv,535 PB 22x15 cm. Botany ABDI/0542/22 1871.25 ₹ 2495.00 25% 07-02-2022 The strength of this book is that it is written by someone who has spent a lifetime devoted to the science of economic botany. The author has brought together his vast experience in the field in Africa with his studies of arid land plants at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The result is an informative and reliable text that covers a vast range of topics. It is also firmly based upon the author's research and interest in plant taxonomy and therefore fully acknowledges the importance of correct naming and classification in the field of science of economic botany. The coverage is of economic botany in its broadest sense. I was delighted to find such topics as ecophysiology, plant breeding, the environment and conservation are included in the text. This gives the book a much more comprehensive coverage than most other texts on the subject. I was also glad to see that the book covers the use of various organisms that are no longer considered part of the plant kingdom such as various species of fungi and algae. It is indeed a broad ranging book that will be of use to many people interested in the uses of plants and fungi. Economic botany is once again being given more prominence as a discipline because of its enormous relevance to both conservation and sustainable development. Those people involved in those topics should find this a most useful resource. Plant Collecting 19440 Plant Conservation 19441 Vegetable Fibre 19442 Plant Toxins 19443 Economic Botany 19438 061895 ddc BK 115706 115706 0 0 ddc 0 0 BOT AL AL SK 2021-02-17 Knowledge World 695.00 0 581.6 WICE 061895 2021-02-17 00:00:00 2021-02-17 BK 0 0 ddc 0 3 BOT AL AL RS 2022-02-10 Academic Book Distributors, Ramanagarm, Karnataka-562159 1871.25 0 581.6 WICE 075422 2022-02-11 00:00:00 2495.00 2022-02-11 REF