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Plant physiology. Plant biophysics --- Forestry --- Tree crops --- 581.1 --- 635.055 --- Forest farming --- Agriculture --- Crops --- Fruit trees --- Nut trees --- Plants --- Trees --- Agroforestry --- Field crops --- Forests and forestry --- Horticultural crops --- Physiology --- Congresses. --- Plant physiology --- Trees (woody plants with trunks) --- Conferences - Meetings --- Plant and Crop Sciences. Botany --- Plant Physiology --- Plant Physiology. --- 635.055 Trees (woody plants with trunks) --- 581.1 Plant physiology --- Physiology&delete& --- Congresses

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Tree crops --- Multipurpose trees --- Multipurpose shrubs --- Multipurpose plants --- Shrubs --- Multipurpose tree species --- Tree species, Multipurpose --- Trees, Multipurpose --- Forest farming --- Agriculture --- Crops --- Fruit trees --- Nut trees --- Plants --- Trees --- Agroforestry --- Field crops --- Forests and forestry --- Horticultural crops --- AFE East Africa --- East Africa --- Ethiopia --- shrubs --- trees --- useful plants --- Dendrology --- Nursery stock --- Woody plants --- Arboriculture --- Timber --- Bushes --- Hedges --- Handbooks, manuals, etc --- Utilization&delete&

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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.

Forest germplasm resources conservation --- Forest products --- Tree crops --- Tropical crops. --- Conservation of forest genetic resources --- Forest genetic resources conservation --- Forest conservation --- Germplasm resources conservation --- Forest production --- Botany, Economic --- Commercial products --- Raw materials --- Forest farming --- Agriculture --- Crops --- Fruit trees --- Nut trees --- Plants --- Trees --- Agroforestry --- Field crops --- Forests and forestry --- Horticultural crops --- Plantation crops --- Tropical agriculture --- Tropical plants --- Tropical crops

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Plant ecology. Plant sociology --- Plant physiology. Plant biophysics --- Forestry --- Assolement --- Boomplantages --- Bossen en bosbouw --- Break crops --- Crop rotation --- Crops [Rotation of ] --- Forest farming --- Forest planting --- Forest production --- Forestation --- Forestry industry --- Forests and forestry --- Forêts et sylviculture --- Plantages [Boom] --- Plantations d'arbres --- Plantations ligneuses --- Rotation of crops --- Sylviculture --- Tree crops --- Wisselbouw --- Woods (Forests) --- Short rotation forestry --- Trees --- Congresses --- Ecophysiology --- Physiological ecology --- Short rotation forestry - Congresses --- Tree crops - Ecophysiology - Congresses --- Trees - Ecophysiology - Congresses

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Tree species, spread across a wide range of genera, are indispensable to human life. Their breeding, poised to satisfy human needs, presents significant challenges. Tree crops face a variety of agronomic and horticultural problems in propagation, yield, appearance, quality, diseases and pest control, abiotic stresses and poor shelf-life. Additionally, shrinkage of cultivable land and the pressure of growing demand have resulted in growth of tree crops under marginal conditions that call for concerted efforts for their genetic improvement. Increased attention to the environment, sustainability and diet in recent years in turn magnifies the importance of study of these crops. With the use of modern molecular and biotechnological tools, the task of improving yield in tree crops is foremost in the acumen of future global agricultural research for sustainable production. This 2-volume book series deals with both tropical and temperate tree crop species, and represents an effort toward compilation of all available worldwide research on these subjects. This volume covers fruits and nuts (banana, mango, guava, papaya, grape, date palm, litchi, avocado, and cashew), oil crops (coconut, oil palm and olive), industrial crops (rubber) and beverages (coffee, tea and cocoa). The contributing authors are internationally-known specialists who provide first hand comprehensive knowledge. All contributory book chapters have been peer reviewed and revised accordingly. This book series is an indispensable reference for scientists, researchers, teachers, students, policy makers and planters. S. Mohan Jain, Plant Biotechnologist, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland P. M. Priyadarshan, Plant Breeder, Rubber Research Institute of India.

Tree crops. --- Tree crops --- Tropical crops --- Trees --- Plantations --- Botany --- Agriculture --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Plant Sciences --- Botany - General --- Breeding --- Breeding. --- Forest farming --- Life sciences. --- Agriculture. --- Plant science. --- Botany. --- Plant genetics. --- Life Sciences. --- Plant Sciences. --- Plant Genetics & Genomics. --- Crops --- Fruit trees --- Nut trees --- Plants --- Agroforestry --- Field crops --- Forests and forestry --- Horticultural crops --- Plant Genetics and Genomics. --- Genetics --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Biology --- Natural history --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Floristic botany