Economic botany : for BSc, MSc students and competitive examinations
/ B. P. Pandey
- New Delhi : S. Chand, 2003
- 532 p. ill. ; 27 cm.
cereals and millets; legumes and nuts; vegetables; fruits; fibres and fibre yielding plants; wood and cork; rubber and its products; fatty oils and vegetable fats; essential oils; sugar and starch; pulp and paper industry; the medicinal plants; fumitories and masticatories; spices an condiments; tannins and dyes; gums and resins; non-alcoholic beverages and beverage plants; alcoholic beverages; useful aspects of lower plants; methods of crop improvement; food adulteration; alcoholism; forests and action plans; the sacred plants; an introduction to ethnobotany; a summary - indian raw materials and industrial products