Plant resources of South-East Asia Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates

This volume deals with the plants of South-East Asia that produce and store starch and/or sugar as a reserve food in organs other tha seeds, e.g. in tubers, corms, cormels, stolons, thickened roots, stems, trunks and fruits. Starches and sugars are the main source of food energy for humans and animals.rnMost of the crops dealt with in this volume are grown at subsistence level in the tropics. A…