Ginger: The Genus Zingiber (Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles)
Editorial CRC PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag CRC PRESS
- ISBN13 9788181472083
- ISBN10 818147208X
- Gegenstandsart BUCH
- Buchseiten 576
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2004
Ginger: The Genus Zingiber (Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles)
Editorial CRC PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
Ginger: The Genus Zingiber is the first comprehensive volume on ginger. Valued as a spice and medicinal plant from ancient times both in India and China, ginger is now used universally as a versatile spice and in traditional medicine as well as in modern medicine.
This book covers all aspects of ginger, including botany, crop improvement, chemistry, biotechnology, production technology in the major producing countries, diseases, pests, and harvesting. It also explores processing, products, economics and marketing, pharmacology, medicinal applications, and uses as a spice and flavoring. Experts in the areas of genetic resources, botany, crop improvement, and biotechnology of ginger give an in-depth analysis of these key aspects, and each chapter concludes with an extensive bibliography.