Herbs, Spices, and Medicinal Plants
Subtitle: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, and Pharmacology (Herbs, Spices, and Medicinal Plants) (Herbs, Spices, and Medicinal Plants)
Contributors: James E. Simon (Editor)
Publisher: Food Products Press
Published: February 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781560228578
Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; Pharmacology; Science/Mathematics; Medical Botany; Science; Life Sciences - Botany; Life Sciences - Horticulture
First sentence: Chemical pesticides, generally synthesized in the laboratory during the past 50 years, have been used to control weeds, insects, diseases, and other crop pests in fields and storage bins, saving millions of humans from disease and famine during the twentieth century.