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Book SynopsisThere is Global concern on shrinking food base depending on a meager three crops-wheat, rice and maize-.New Crops are to be encouraged to fit into the changing food habits, life styles and above all climate change. Underutilized Horticultural Crops are getting attention world around. The High Impact Journal HortScience reviewed vol. II Underutilized and Underexploited Horticultural Crops and reported its global value. The series projects the nutritional values, ecological compatibility, fitness to ecological niches and above all optimum uses of natural resources like water, energy, space and time. Volume 4 deals with edible plant foods in Africa, African Leafy Vegetables, Amaranths, Chilies, Annual Drumstick, Clove bean, Cluster bean, Curry leaf, Ivy Gourd, Snap melon, Sweet Gourd, Teasles Gourd, Tree borne vegetables, Fruits of North Eastern Region, Dragon Fruit, Wood apple, Strobilanthes, Seed Spices, Yam bean and Trees for Energy. Twenty s in the 4th volume are compiled by the Eminent Scientists in the respective crops. The volume 4 envisages a world free from hunger and under nutrition and full of health and wellness.
Table of Contents1. Edible Plant Foods in South Africa: New Light from Ancient dwellers Dawn Young blood Underexploited Vegetables: 2. African Leafy Vegetables John Van Densburg, W.S. and H.J. Varster 3. Amaranths Van den Hever, E. and S.L. Venter 4. Chillies Anu, A. and K.V. Peter 5. Annual Drumstick Prabhakar, M. and S.S. Hebbar 6. Clove bean Salikutty Joseph 7. Cluster bean Renugadevi, J., V. Vijayageetha and P. Srimathi 8. Curry leaf Salikutty Joseph 9. Ivy Gourd Li-ju Lin and C.G. Kuo 10. Snapmelon Dhillon, N.P.S. 11. Sweet Gourd Joseph John, K. and L.K. Bharathi 12. Teasles Gourd Joseph John, K. 13. Tree borne vegetables Maurya, I.B. and Jitendra Singh Underexploited Fruits: 14. Underexploited fruits of North Eastern Region Patel, R.K., Akath Singh, D.S. Yadav and L.C. Des 15. Dragon fruit Pushpakumara, D.K.N.G. and H.P.M. Gunasena 16. Wood apples Shukla, S.K. and A.K. Singh Underexploited Ornamentals 17. Strobilanthes: Promising Indigenous ornamental plants from Western Ghats, India-Anitha, K., Shijo Joseph and S. Narendra Prasad Underexploited Spices: 18. Underexploited seed spices - ajowan, anise, black caraway, caraway, celery, dill, nigella and parsley Suresh K. Malhotra Underexploited Tuber Crops: 19. Yam bean Mukhopadhyay, S.K., Rajib Nath and W. Sen Underexploited Agro-Forestry Crops: 20. Underexploited trees for energy Felix Francis, K. Sudhakara and K.V. Peter
