| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 568 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Preface; A Note on Technical Terms; 1 A Threatened Resource; Distribution and composition of tropical forests; Centers of diversity; Biodiversity, deforestation, and population growth; Driving forces; Crop gene pools; 2 Beverage and Confectionery Crops; Coffee; Cacao; Cupuaçu; 3 Major Fruits of the Forest; Mango; Citrus; Pineapple; Avocado; Guava; Papaya; Sapodilla; Passionfruit; 4 Regional Fruits; Durian; Rambutan; Annonaceous fruits; African plum; Indian jujube; 5 Rubber, Oils, and Resins; Rubber; Oil palm; Balsams; Tropical pines; 6 Daily Bread; Bananas and plantains |
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BreadfruitPeach palm; Sago palm; 7 Fuelwood, Fodder, and Woody Grasses; Leucaena; Bamboos; 8 Spices and Natural Food Colorants; Clove; Cinnamon and cassia; Vanilla; Annatto; 9 Nuts; Cashew; Brazil nut; Macadamia; 10 A New Cornucopia; The plant domestication process; A starting point for the search; Some crop candidates; Prospects for adoption; 11 Conservation Strategies; Ex situ conservation; In situ conservation; 12 Realizing the Potential; Conservation and sustainable development; Secure resource bases; Reaping the harvest; Research priorities for marginal lands; The quarantine bottleneck |
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Personnel requirementsFinding a way forward; APPENDIX 1. Domesticated Perennial Species with Wild Populations in Tropical Forests; APPENDIX 2. Abbreviations of Institutions Involved in Collecting, Maintaining, and/or Breeding Tropical Perennial Crops; APPENDIX 3. Common Names and Distribution of Avocado's Relatives; APPENDIX 4. Avocado Accessions in Germplasm Collections; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
The tropics are the source of many of our familiar fruits, vegetables, oils, and spice, as well as such commodities as rubber and wood. Moreover, other tropical fruits and vegetables are being introduced into our markets to offer variety to our diet. Now, as tropical forests are increasingly threatened, we face a double-fold crisis: not only the loss of the plants but also rich pools of potentially useful genes. Wild populations of crop plants harbor genes that can improve the productivity and disease resistance of cultivated crops, many of which are vital to developing economies and to global commerce. Eight chapters of this book are devoted to a variety of tropical crops-beverages, fruit, starch, oil, resins, fuelwood, fodder, spices, timber, and nuts-the history of their domestication, their uses today, and the known extent of their gene pools, both domesticated and wild. Drawing on broad research, the authors also consider conservation strategies such as parks and reserves, corporate holdings, gene banks and tissue culture collections, and debt-for-nature swaps. They stress the need for a sensitive balance between conservation and the economic well-being of local populations. If economic growth is part of the conservation effort, local populations and governments will be more strongly motivated to save their natural resources. Distinctly practical and soundly informative, this book provides insight into the overwhelming abundance of tropical forests, an unsettling sense of what we may lose if they are destroyed, and a deep appreciation for the delicate relationships between tropical forest plants and people around the world |
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Jujube |
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CONSERVATION |
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Nuts |
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Spices |
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Food colourants |
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Bananas |
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BALSAM |
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Fruit |
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SAPODILLA |
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Pawpaws |
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Avocados |
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Citrus |
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Coffee |
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CUPUACU |
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DEFORESTATION |
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TREE CROPS |
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Genetic resources |
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TROPICAL FORESTS |
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Genes |
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RAMBUTAN |
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Plantains |
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BREADFRUITS |
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SAGO |
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PEACH PALM |
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Elastomers |
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Oil palm |
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DURIAN |
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PASSIONFRUIT |
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GUAVAS |
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Pineapples |
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Mangoes |
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Cocoa |
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SPECIES DIVERSITY |
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Tropical fruits |
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HUMAN POPULATION |
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Germplasm |
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Collection |
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agronomie |
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agronomy |
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bosproducten |
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forest products |
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bosbouw |
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forestry |
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rubberplanten |
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rubber plants |
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opwekkende planten |
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stimulant plants |
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subtropisch fruit |
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subtropical fruits |
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tropisch fruit |
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tropen |
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tropics |
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wilde planten |
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wild plants |
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plantkunde |
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botany |
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ericaceae |
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sierplanten |
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ornamental plants |
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bosproducten anders dan hout |
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non-wood forest products |
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economische botanie |
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economic botany |
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Non-wood Products |
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Economic Botany |
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Bosbijproducten |
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Economische botanie |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-548) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Tropical crops.
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Tree crops -- Tropics
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Forest products -- Tropics
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Forest germplasm resources conservation -- Tropics
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General.
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Forest germplasm resources conservation
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Forest products
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Tree crops
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Tropical crops
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Pflanzen
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Tropischer Regenwald
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Regenwouden.
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Cultures tropicales.
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Forêt et sylviculture -- Régions tropicales.
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Boisement -- Régions tropicales.
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Produits forestiers -- Régions tropicales.
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Forêts -- Ressources génétiques -- Régions tropicales.
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48.49 forestry: other.
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48.49 forestry: other.
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Tropics
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Smith, Nigel J. H., 1949-
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| LC no. |
92052772 |
| ISBN |
9781501717949 |
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1501717944 |
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