Underutilized and Underexploited Horticultural Crops, Vol. IV

Contents: Devotion. Foreword. Acknowledgement. Introduction. I. General: 1. Edible plant foods in South Africa: new light from ancient dwellers/Dawn Youngblood. II. Underexploited: Vegetables: 2. African leaf vegetables/W.S. Jansen Van Rensburg and H.J. Vorster. 3. Amaranths/E. Van Den Heever and S.L. Venter. 4. Chillies/A. Anu and K.V. Peter. 5. Annual drumstick (Moringa oleifer Lam)/M. Prabhakar and S.S. Hebbar. 6. Clove Bean/Salikutty Joseph. 7. Cluster bean/J. Benugadevi, V. Vijayageetha and P. Srimathi. 8. Curry leaf/Salikutty Joseph. 9. Ivy gourd/Li-Ju Lin and C.G. Kau. 10. Snapmelon/Dhillon N.P.S. 11. Sweet gourd (Momordica cochinchinesis (Lour) Spreng)/Joseph John K. and L.K. Bharathi. 12. Tealse gourd (Momordica subangulata Blume ssp. renigera (G. Don) de Wide)/Joseph John K. 13. Tree-borne vegetables/Maurya I.B. and Jitendra Singh. III. Fruits: 14. Underutilized fruits of North Eastern Region India/Patel R.K., Akath Singh, D.s. Yadav and L.C. Des. 15. Dragon fruit Hylocereus undatus (Haw.) Britton and Rose/Pushpakumara D.K.N.G. and H.P.M. Gunasena. 16. Wood apple/Shukla S.K. and A.K. Singh. IV. Ornamentals: 17. Strobilanthes: promising indigenous ornamental plants from Western Ghats India/Anita K., Shijo Joseph and S. Narendra Prasad. V. Spices: 18. Underexploited seed spices - Ajowan, Anise, Black Caraway, Caraway, Celery, Dill, Nigella and Parsley/Suresh K. Malhotra. VI. Tuber crops: 19. Yam Bean/Mukhopadhyay S.K., Rajib Nath and H. Sen. VII. Agro-Forestry Crops: 20. Underutilized trees for energy/Felix Francis, K. Sudhakara and K.V. Peter. Index.

"There 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, Chillies, 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 chapters in the fourth 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."