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PROSEA " Plant Resources of South-East Asia 2 (Edible fruits and nuts)

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Prosea, short for 'Plant Resources of South-East Asia", is an international programme focused on South-East Asia. Its purpose is to make available the wealth of dispersed knowledge on plant resources for education, extension, research and industry htriugh a computerized data bank and an illustrated multivolume handbook. a through knowledge of plant resources is essential for human lige and plays a key role in ecologically balanced land-use systems. Extensive information on the plants growing in the region is needed to enable the plant resources of each country to be used optimalllu. A large international team of experts is preparing the texts on particular species or genera, which are being published in commodity groups. All taxa are treated in a similar manner with details on uses, botany, ecology, agronomy or silviculture, genetic resources, breeding, prospects and literature.

This volume testifies to the great wealth and diversity of edible fruits and nuts in South-East Asia. The appreciation of these fruits and nuts is reflected in the many ways they are put to use and their role in cultural traditions. However, they generally yield erratically rather than prolifically. Where low productivity is the root of the problem there is much to say for a shift in emphasis in research work from the fruit to the tree. Recent developments in South-East Asia suggest that traditional skills can provide the necessary clues for a breakthrough towards much higher yield levels. Among the 120 crops included are sugarapple, cherimoya, cashew, ananas, breadfruit, mango , durian, black and white sapote, mangosteen, avocado, tamarind, langsat, guava, carambola, bilimbi, salak, peach palm, passionfruit, macadamia, pummelo, lychee, longan, rambutan, sapodilla, starapple, canistel, sweet orange, pilinut, loquat, kumquat, belfruit, galo nt, bignay, ketupa, rambai, gandaria, papaya, grape and strawberry. Brief characteristics of another 270 minor species are included. A glossary explains the terms used.

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Call Number

580.7 VER p

Publisher

Bogor and Netherlands : Proea Foundation dan Pudoc-DLO., 1991

Collation

454 p.: ilus.; 27 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

90-220-0986-6

Classification

580.7

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Edition

Cet.1, 1991

Subject(s)

plant
plant of Asia, South-East Asia

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