Recursos Etiquetado: Underutilized Resources

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  1. The Nature and Culture of Rattan: Reflections on Vanishing Life in the Forests of Southeast Asia

    1/1/2012 Rattan is the common name for a diverse group of climbing palms found throughout Old World tropical forests. For centuries people have used them for binding, basketry, house construction, food, and numerous other non-market purposes; more recently the canes of some species have been gathered for...
    Rattan Rattan Palms Underutilized Reso... Southeast Asia

  2. Chayote, Sechium edule (Jacq.) Sw.

    1/1/1996 This series of monographs intends to draw attention to a number of species which have been neglected in a varying degree by researchers or have been underutilized economically. It is hoped that the information compiled will contribue to (1) identifying constraints in and possible solutions to the...
    Chayote Underutilized Reso... Underutilized Crops

  3. Adlay or Job's Tears: A Cereal of Potentially Greater Economic Importance

    1/1/1952 This article is reprinted from Economic Botany. Adlay or Job's tearsis a cereal grain that been around as a cultivated crop for thousands of years, is considered more wholesome than either wheat or rice, isused as a staple for humans, forage, silage, compost, ornamental and has important...
    Job's Tears Cereal Products Adlay Economic Aspects Underutilized Reso... Underutilized Crops Grain Crops

  4. Gourd Book

    Humankind has had a long and intimate association with gourds, and one of them, the bottle gourd, or calabash, may have been man's first cultivated plant. Although grown in the United States today primarily as ornamentals, in other parts of the world gourds have many other important uses. With...
    Gourds Ornamental Gourds Underutilized Reso...