Tree and Treelike Vegetables

by Sanyat Misra, Sanjay Mishra, R L Misra

ISBN: 9789371700580
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Imprint : Daya Publishing House
Year : 2027
Price : Rs. 21995.00
Biblio : x+474., tbls., figs., 25cm.,

Author Profile

Dr. Sanyat Misra is serving Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi (Jharkhand) for the last 20 years. To his credit he has some 46 research publications, 14 standard books and has guided 9 M.Sc. students for their thesis programme. He teaches almost all the horticultural courses. Sanjay Mishra is a soft work engineer based at Lucknow cum a graduate in biological science. He has to his credit some 10 books out of which 2 are exclusively on computer science. Dr. R.L. Misra got retired from IARI, New Delhi in May, 2008 after serving IARI for 40 years in temperate as well as in subtropical areas of the country. Further he served IARI as Adjunct Faculty for 5 years from 2010 to 2014. Presently he is Adjunct Faculty in the Deparment of Horticulture, Rani Laxmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi (U.P.). To his credit he has some 500 publications, 15 standard books, some one dozen bulletins and had edited ‘Journal of Ornamental Horticulture’ continuously for 12 years starting from 1993 to 2004. He taught all the floricultural courses to M.Sc. and Ph.D. students in IARI, and guided 6 M.Sc. and 16 Ph.D. students as Chairman. He is Life Member in 12 professional societies. To his credit he has 30 gladiolus varieties. He is recipient of Urivi-Vikram Charitable Trust Award (2003) and HSI Gold Medal (2013). He is honorary fellow of ISGPB, New Delhi (1980); ISOH, New Delhi (2009); HSI, New Delhi (2018); and Society for Promotion of Horticulture, IIHR, Bengaluru (2022). He got Lifetime Achievement Awards from ISOH, New Delhi (2018) and The Orissa Horticultural Society, OUAT, Bhubaneswar (2023).

About The Book

This handbook is a heterogeneous group of 8 quite important crops. Though 'curry leaf' is not a vegetable but adds flavour in cuisines. Just emerged bamboo shoots are a delicacy in pickling and as cooked vegetable but only to a very limited areas of the country. Mahua falls under Plantation Crops but arils of its raw mature fruits are used as a delicious vegetable. Roots, leaves, flowers and most important the drumsticks are used as a highly nutritious vegetable even when cooked in pulses. Banana, jackfruit and breadfruit are used as ripened fruits as well as tasty vegetables when raw. Kachnar is a floral vegetable where its flower buds are cooked as vegetable and for preparing ‘raayata’. This 'This book' will serve as a guide to horticultural professionals, horticultural officers, students of horticulture [B.Sc. (Ag.) Hort.; M.Sc. (Ag.)] as well as those students offering courses in Fruits & Vegetables at Ph.D. levels. Scientists working on fruits or vegetables as well as concerned teachers will also find this book a boon in their endeavours.

Table of Contents

Preface v 1. Banana 1 2. Artocarpus J.R.Forster & G.Forster 79 2A. Jackfruit or Jack tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.) 101 2B. Chempedak [Artocarpus integer (Thunb.) Merr.] 185 2C. Lakoocha (Artocarpus lakoocha Buch.-Ham.) 189 2D. Kwai Muk (Artocarpus parvus Gagnep.) 193 2E. Wild Jack/Hirsute Artocarpus (Artocarpus hirsutus Lam.) 195 3. Breadfruit [Artocarpus altilis (Parkinson) Fosberg.] 199 4. Drumstick tree/Moringa (Moringa oleifera Lam.) 247 5. Mahua [Madhuca longifolia (L.) J.F.Macbr.] 341 6. Bamboo 361 7. Curry tree or Curry leaf tree [Bergera koenigii (L.)] 411 8. Indian Bauhinia or Kachnar (Bauhinia variegata L.) 447 Index 461 Colour Plates I-XII