Issue No 8, July 1997.
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- Abusura, cultivar Al Marharbi: orange popular in Morocco
- Achiote/annatto (Bixa sp.): food colouring, b-carotenes
- acidic juices for blending with vegetable juices: kiwifruit, feijoa (leave skins out), Ponocitrus trifoliata, banana passionfruit, green grapes, loquat, rhubarb stems (without the poisonous leaves)
- amaranth
- Artemisia annua: producing artemisinin
- artichoke: medicinal properties
- Aspalathus linearis (rooibos tea)
- asparagus
- aster, variety Rainbow
- Atriplex semibaccata and A. halimus as a supplement for guinea pigs' diet
- banana, variety Mons Marie
- beach plum (Prunus maritima)
- black cabbage (open-pollinated cultivar of Brassica oleracea, Acephala group), also known as Lacinato, Cavolo Nero, and Dinosaur Kale
- black sapota (Diospyros digyna): chemical composition of the black pigment
- blackberry fruit for wine
- black-eyed peas
- blue glucomannan (Amorphalles konjak)
- Brassica nigra: allyl isothiocyanate from oil
- buckwheat: bees
- Calendula sp.
- Camelina sp.
- Canadian ryegrass
- canned hearts of palm
- cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana): poha
- capers (Capparis spinosa)
- capsicum oil: alternative power source
- cardoons (European member of the artichoke family)
- carob
- cashew nut: economics, production, processing and marketing in Swaziland
- cassava/manioc: uses
- cassava/yucca/tapioca (Manihot esculenta): one variegated form for ornamental purposes, two others for food (sweet and bitter forms).
- Castanea mollissima, C. crenata
- celery, celeriac, carrot: seed production
- chamomile
- chaste tree berries (Vitex agnus-castus)
- chemical composition of wood: Tabebuia pallida, Swietenia macrophylla, S. mahogany, Pimenta racemosa, Hematoxylon campachium
- cocoa chocolate tree (Theobroma cacao)
- coconut oil
- coloured cotton (http://www.foxfibre.com/cotton/)
- crab apple tree
- Crambe sp.
- Cuphea sp.
- custard apples
- danko peas
- Dimorphotheca sp.
- double purified guar splits
- dried flower plantings: use of Preen herbicide
- Drome Sage (or other Salvia officinalis with low thujone)
- Echinacea: germination
- Euphorbia lagascae
- Euphorbia lathyris
- Euphorbia sp.
- fenugreek
- fish meal or emulsion as fertiliser
- Gevuina avellana
- ginseng (http://res.agr.ca/lond/pmrc/pmrchome.html)
- Giza sorghum: use in Egypt for baking bread
- Gnetum spp. (other than the well known Gnetum gnemon)
- goldenseal
- heat pump drying of Nashi Fruit (Pyrus pyrifolia) and Japanese Plums
- horseradish (Armoracia rusticana): medicinal properties
- indigo/woad
- industrialising tamarind, coconut, mango, lemon and pepper-based products
- jack beans (Canavalia ensiformis)
- Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi): for jewellery
- kaissai pods
- kenaf and agro-residues: on-line newsletter
- Kirby cucumber (England): blocky non-bitter pickling type with few spines)
- Lesquerella sp.
- Limnanthes sp.
- longans: growing
- Lost Crops of the Andes
- Lunaria sp.
- lychees
- machine for automatically grating the zest off citrus fruits
- Malabar chestnut
- medicinal herbs: salt tolerance
- Momordica charantia
- Moringa tree
- Mucuna pruriens
- Mung beans (Vigna radiata): effect of radiation
- okra
- on-line crop fact sheets (e.g. http://www.cce.cornell.edu/publications/agriculture.html or http://www.crfg.org/pubs/frtfacts.html or http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/hil/index.html)
- palm oil
- Pinus pinea
- pistachio nut
- pitaya (Hylocereus undatus syn Cereus undatus, Stenocereus thurberi, S. gummosueus, Escontria chiotrilla, Myrtillocactus geometrizans, Cereus peruvianus)
- plantains: consumption information
- plants used for growing plastic (poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate, i.e. PHB)
- pomace, sweet almond, grapeseed and citrus oils
- pre-cooked plantain/soy-protein flour
- quinoa
- rambutans
- red kudzu seed
- red palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus)
- Salix alba x Salix matsudana
- samphire or glasswort (in the UK: Salicornia spp.)
- Sonoran palo verde brea tree (Cercidium praeco palo brea)
- sour oranges
- Spanish chestnut trees
- Sphenostylis sp.
- sundew (Drosera adelae): medicinal use
- sweet basil: mechanical harvesting
- switch cane (Arundinaria gigantea tecta)
- tea (Camellia sinensis) micropropagation
- Texas wild rice (Zizania texana)
- tobacco as a biomass energy feedstock
- tree tomato (Cyphomandra betacea): in Ecuador
- trifoliate orange
- una de gato peruana
- waterchestnut: processing
- wild rice
- wonderberry plants
- yohimbe (Coynanthe yohimbe)
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