Underutilized Vegetable And Spices Crops

This book comprises 37 underutilized vegetable and spice crops belong to 11 botanical families and present an expanded coverage of fundamental and practical aspects of qualitative vegetables and spices production. Exhausitive information has been given about the composition and potential utilization of different underutilized crops. The first chapter is an introductory while chapter second is of general nature which gives a detailed treatment on definition, importance and strategies for development and conservation of underutilized vegetable and spice crops.

1. Introduction
2. Underutilized Species-Importance and Strategies for Development and Conservation
3. Underutilized Cucurbits: Importance and Strategies for Improvement and Conservation
4. Chow-Chow
5. Sweet Gourd
6. Snake Gourd
7. Kachari
8. Fig Leaf Squash or Malabar Gourd
9. Stuffing Cucumber (Meetha Karela)
10. Underutilized Legumes: Importance and Strategies for Improvement and Conservation
11. Jack Bean and Sword Bean
12. Winged Bean
13. Yam Bean
14. Tree Bean
15. Lablab Bean
16. Velvet Bean
17. Broad Bean
18. Lima Bean

1. Tree Tomato
2. Bird Eye Chilli
3. King Chilli (Worlds Hottest Chilli)
4. Bitter Brinjal

1. Elephant-Foot-Yam
2. Cassava
3. Colocasia
4. Coleus
5. Alocasia
6. Underutilized Leafy Vegetables: Importance and Strategies for Improvement and Conservation
7. Curry Leaf
8. Basella
9. Amaranthus
10. Moringa
11. Bathua

1. Buckwheat
2. Bamboo Shoot
3. Giant Granadilla

1. Leek
2. Hookerii

1. Mango Ginger
2. Black Ginger
3. Long Coriander
4. Subject Index