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All over the world local varieties of fruit, vegetables and grain are grown. Many are seemingly forgotten or are underutilized despite having outstanding nutritional or taste qualities. Some have good commercial potential and could be an excellent cash crop for a smallscale or family farmers,...
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1997/01/01 The proceedings of the conference identified many of the practical problems affecting the domestication of new and underutilized crops. 298 pages
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The largest edible fruit native to the United States tastes like a cross between a banana and a mango. It grows wild in twenty-six states, gracing Eastern forests each fall with sweet-smelling, tropical-flavored abundance. Historically, it fed and sustained Native Americans and European...
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1996/01/01 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...
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1952/01/01 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...
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1997/01/19 Promoting the conservation and use of underutilized and neglected crops. 13 76 pages, illustrated, photos
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Abstract, Plants People Planet, 2020 Dec Societal Impact Statement Using Taro (Colocasia esculenta) as a case study, we examine how perception gapscontribute to negative feedback loops that create or maintain the orphan status ofcertain crops. For students and researchers seeking uncrowded areas...
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Abstract, bioRXiv, 2017 Millions of subsistence farmers cultivate crops on terraces. These farmers face unique challenges including severe shortages of arable land and remoteness leading to poor access to inputs including nitrogen fertilizer. These challenges contribute to human and livestock...
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1988/10/20 It is the purpose of this paper to discuss the possibility of selecting potential clones from the lesser known fruits here including introduced fruits, and how to clonally propagate them by various methods of vegetative propagation. 27 pages
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2021/03/01 Several species of edible ferns exist around the world, ranging from the tropics to more temperate regions, and most commonly include the bracken ferns (Pteridium spp.), ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris), and the Stenochlaena spp. ferns. However, the focus of this study is on the vegetable...