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…
for enrichment planting in natural forest are also indicated. The timbers dealt with include amberoi, dao, durian, ebony, jeluong, kedondong, kelat, medang, mempening, penaga, podocarp, rengas, rubberwood, simpoh, surian, tembesu and wattle. A glossary is included to explain the terms used.
This volume on lesser-known timbers complete the Prosea trilogy on timber trees. Lesser-known timbers merit attention because of the growing appreciation of their importance in the sustainable management of tropical forest and of their potential for forest plantations. The increasing use of wood-based panels, requiring less outstanding timber qualities and less uniformity, also intensifies thei…
This volume deals with the algae that are used in some form in South-East Asia. Their utilization falls mainly into four main categories: direct human consumption (vegetables, salads, health food), production of phycocolloids, raw material for animal feed and fertilizer, and medicinal and pharmaceutical uses. Small and unicellular algae (microalgae) are used differently from the larger ones (ma…