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Plants for Arid Lands: Proceedings of the Kew International Conference on Economic Plants for Arid Lands Held in the Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic

Plants for Arid Lands: Proceedings of the Kew International Conference on Economic Plants for Arid Lands Held in the Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic

Wickens, G. E.
Field, David V.
Goodin, Joe R.

Paperback

AgricultureBotany & HorticultureGeneral Gardening

ISBN10: 0044453302
ISBN13: 9780044453307
Publisher: Springer
Published: Jun 30 1989
Pages: 496
Weight: 1.53
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Economic plants have been defined by SEPASAT as those plants that are utilised either directly or indirectly for the benefit of Man. Indirect usage includes the needs of Man's livestock and the maintenance of the environment; the benefits may be domestic, commercial or aesthetic. Economic plants constitute a large and so far uncalculated percentage of the quarter of a million higher plants in the World today. However, it has been calculated that 10% (25 000) of these species are now on the verge of extinction and extinction means that a genetic resource that could be of benefit to Man will be lost for ever. Furthermore, for every species lost an estimated 10-30 other dependent organisms are also doomed. Fewer than 1 per cent of the World's plants have been sufficiently well studied for a true evaluation of the potential floral wealth awaiting discovery, not only in the rain forests, which man is now actively destroying at a rate of 20 ha a minute, but also in the very much neglected dry areas of the World.

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