Economic Botany : A Profile

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction to economic botany. 2. Food plants: cereals, fruits potatoes pulses and legumes and vegetables. 3. Aromatic spice and medicinal plants. 4. Plant products used as food: beverages, fumitories and masticatories sugar and vegetable oil yielding plants. 5. Plant products of industrial value: dye, fibre and rubber yielding plants. 6. Bamboo canes and timber plants. 7. Methods of cultivation of some economic plants. 8. Manufacturing process of tea coffee cocoa, sugar cotton jute pulp and paper and rubber. 9. Less known fruits of Northeast India. 10. Traditional rice beers prepared by the Mongolian race of Assam: an overview. 11. List of common important plants. 12. Ethnobotany in Indian context. Selected bibliography. Index.

The book includes 12 chapters more or less covering the syllabi of B.Sc. and M.Sc. courses of most of the Indian Universities. Each chapter has been provided with utmost care to incorporate data from recent literatures/research publications. The author has given emphasis on presenting the subject matter of each and every topic covered by the syllabi, in simple concise and lucid form to the students. Some research findings of the author published in various journals of national and international repute are presented in the chapter 3, 9 and 10 as an attraction for the students of botany through this book. (jacket)