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Prosea Plant Resources of South-East Asia 3: Dye and tanninproducing plants

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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 through a computerized data bank and an illustrated multivolume handbook. A through knowledge of plants resources is essential for human life and plays a key role in ecologically balanced land-use systems. Extensice information on the plants growing in the region is needed to enable the plant resources of each country to be used optimally. A large international team of ecperts 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 voleme covers the plants in South-East Asia that yield dyes and tannins. The former, current and potenstial future roles in local industries and culture is discussed. Interest in using vegetable dyes and tannins instead of synthetic materials is growing because of concern for the encironment and human health. The plants described include annatto, henna, indigo myrobalans , black wattle, gambier, bakau, soga, logwood, fla,e-of-the-forest, dye-yam, gamboge tree and night jasmine.

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580.7 LEM p

Publisher

Bogor and Netherlands : Prosea and Backhuys Publishers., 1991

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200 p.; ilus.; 27 cm

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979-8316-03-7

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580.7

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Edition

Third impression 2001

Subject(s)

plant of Asia, South-East Asia

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