The green frontier
Subtitle: stories of chemurgy
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Economic Botany; Juvenile literature
Description: Describes the many useful substances chemical research uncovered in common plants like the peanut, soybean, sesame, castorbean, and cotton.  Explains how botanists have improved the production of these crops and their chemical yield.