Listing of Useful Plants of the World
[formerly Listing of Potential New Crops for Australia]

NOTICE: Information on the background to this Listing is available. The analysis of numbers of papers/mentions over time was completed in 1997, using the Agricola database (1970-1996). Hard copies of the Listing (553 pages; over 4200 new crops listed with the analyses of numbers of papers over time included) are available from the publisher, Dr Rob Fletcher; see Advice on Publications Available.

The references listed below are from the Biological Abstracts database (1988-2000) and are courtesy of SilverPlatter Information. For more information re Silverplatter, go to www.silverplatter.com.

Dioscorea oppositifolia

 

Analysis of numbers of papers/mentions over time (Agricola database 1970-1996):

 

Source: AGRICOLA database (1970-1996)

Common Name(s): yam
Crop Use(s): root
Reference Source(s): sturtevant
Number of Papers/Mentions: 2

References (Biological Abstracts 1988-2000):

[These references are from the Biological Abstracts database and are courtesy of SilverPlatter Information. For more information re SilverPlatter, go to www.silverplatter.com. References are listed alphabetically by author within years, with most recent references first; addresses of author(s) have been included when available. To search within this page, we suggest using Find in Page, within the Edit menu of the Web Browser.]

Dwivedi, S. N. (1999). Traditional health care among tribals of Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh with special reference to conservation of endangered and vulnerable species. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany. [print] September 23(2): 315-320. {a} Department of Botany, Janata College (A.P.S. University), Rewa, 486 001, India

Basu, R. and P. K. Mukherjee (1996). Food plants of the tribe, 'Paharias' of Purulia. Advances in Plant Sciences 9(2): 209-210. {a} Dep. Bot., Achhuram Meml. Coll., Jhalda 723202, Purulia, W. Bengal, India

Taylor, C. E. S., L. K. Magrath, et al. (1996). Oklahoma vascular plants: Additions and distributional comments. Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science 76: 31-34. {a} Biol. Dep., Southeastern Oklahoma State Univ., Durant, OK 74701, USA

Tanno, N., M. Nakayama, et al. (1994). Gibberellins A-19 and A-24 from yams, Dioscorea bulbifera, D. pentaphylla and D. oppositifolia. Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung Section C Biosciences 49(7-8): 399-403. {a} Dep. Biol., Fac. Sci., Yamagata Univ., Kojirakawa-cho 1-4-12, Yamagata 990, Japan

Nilegaonkar, S., V. D. Vartak, et al. (1985). Nutritional evaluation of some wild food plants from Pune and neighboring districts, Maharashtra State (India): Part I. Journal Of Economic And Taxonomic Botany 6(3): 629-636.

Index of botanical names:
[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M]
[N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z]

Index of common names:
[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M]
[N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z]

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Contact: Dr Rob Fletcher, School of Agriculture and Horticulture, The University of Queensland, Gatton 4343; Telephone: 07 5460 1311 or 07 5460 1301; Facsimile: 07 5460 1112; International facsimile: 61 7 5460 1112; Email: r.fletcher@mailbox.uq.edu.au

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