Contents

Frontispiece

Foreword

Preface

Conference recommendations

Conference papers

BACKGROUND

I. The needs of the people Mary Cherry

2. The arid environment A.T. Grove

FOOD

3. Wild desert relatives of crops: their direct uses as food Gary P. Nabhan and Richard S. Felger

4. Crops for arid lands J.M. Wilson and J.R. Witcombe

5. The nutritional composition of Australian Aboriginal food plants of the desert regions J.e. Brand and V. Cherikoff

6. Khoisan Food plants: taxa with potential for future economic exploitation T.H. Arnold, MJ. Wells and A.S. Wehmeyer

7. Food plants of prehistoric and predynastic Egypt M. Nabil EI Hadidi

TIMBER, FUEL AND FORAGE

8. Place and role of trees and shrubs in dry areas B. Ben Salem and Christel Palmberg 

9. Prosopis tamarugo in the Chilean Atacama - ecophysiological and reforestation aspects H. Stienen

10. Forage and fuel plants in the arid zone of North Africa. the Near and Middle East H.N. Le Houerou

11. Forage and browse - the northern Australian experience J.J. Mott and R. Reid

12. Bees and honey in the exploitation of arid land resources Eva Crane

PLANTS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

13. Economic halophytes - a global review James Aronson

14. Present and potential economic usages of palms in arid and semi-arid areas Dennis V. Johnson

15. Plants for conservation of soil and water in arid ecosystems H.L. Morton

16. Nitrogen fixation in arid environments J.J. Sprent 

NATIONAL STUDIES

17. The potential for the commercial utilization of indigenous plants in Botswana  F.W. Taylor

18. Ecodevelopment of arid lands in India with non-agricultural economic plants - a holistic approach T.N. Khoshoo and G.V. Subrahmanyam

19. Some indigenous economic plants of the Sultanate of Oman R.M. Lawton 

20. The ecological role of plant resources in the arid regions of China Ren lizhou, Hu Zizhi and Fu Yikun 

21. Plants of the Australian arid zone - an undeveloped potential The late l.R. Maconochie

WORK OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW

22. Wild and semi-cultivated legumes as potential sources of resistance to bruchid beetles for crop breeders: a study of Vigna/Phaseolus N. Birch, B.J. Southgate and L.E. Fellows

23. Seed banks: a useful tool in conservative plant evaluation and exploitation R.D. Smith

24. The potential for the in vitro preparation of a number of economically important plants for arid areas Anne Woods 

BIOCHEMIC ALS

25. Gums and resins, and factors influencing their economic development D.M.W. Anderson 343

26. Resins from Grindelio: a model for renewable resources in arid environments B.N. Timmermann and l.l. Hoffmann

27. Plant hydrocarbon resources in arid and semi-arid lands D.O. Hall

28. Unconventional arid land plants as biomass feedstocks for energy R.l. Newton and l.R. Goodin

29. Rubber and phytochemical specialities from desert plants in North America Eloy Rodriguez

INFORMATION SERVICES

30. Plant information service for economic plants of arid lands F.A. Bisby  

Taxonomic index

General index 

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