Editors: I. Faridah Hanum, L.J.G. van der Maesen.

PROSEA Foundation, P.O. Box 332, Bogor 16122, Indonesia

389 pp., 19 x 25.5 cm

Publisher: LIPI Press, member of Ikapi, Jl. Gondangdia Lama 39, Menteng, Jakarta 10350, Telp. (021) 314 0228, 314 6942. Fax. (021) 314 4591. Email: press@mail.lipi.go.id, lipipress@centrin.net.id, bmrlipi@centrin.net.id

Prosea, short for 'Plants Resources of South-East Asia', is an international programme focused on South-East Asia. Its purpose is to make available the wealth of dispersed knowledge on plant resources for education, extension, research and industry through a computerized data bank and an illustrated multivolume handbook. A thorough knowledge of plant resources is essential for human life and plays a key role in ecologically balanced land-use systems, Extensive information on the palnts growing in the region is needed to enable the plant resources of each country to be used optimally. A large international team of experts is preparing the text on particular species or genera, which are being published in comodity groups. All taxa are treated in a similar manner with details on uses, botany, ecology, agronomy or silviculture, genetic resources, breeding, prospects and literature.

This volume deals with the auxiliary plants in agriculture and forestry of South-East Asia, including fuelwoods and water-clearing plants. Auxiliary plants have service functions in cropping systems and help increase or sustain the yield of the man crops. Auxiliary plants include shade and nurse trees, cover crops, green manures, mulch, fallow crops, live fences, wind-breaks and shelter-belts, live support and stakes, erosion-controlling plants and land reclamation species. Interest in these crops waned after the 1930s, but has grown rapidly since the 1970s as a result of increased attention for sustainable and low-input agriculture.

Fuelwoods are treated here, as many of the trees and shrubs used for fuel, such as Leucaena leucocephala, Casuarina spp. and Acacia spp. have auxiliary roles too. Fuel also plays an auxiliary role in many production processes, contributing to but not forming part of the end product.

Water-clearing plants are not used in South-East Asia as commonly as in Africa or Europe, where ponds and canals bordered with Phragmites spp. contribute significantly to the clearing of effluents. Most of the 78 important erops treated in this volume are grown in South-East Asia, but several crops widely grown elsewhere and potentially useful in parts of South-East Asia have been included as well. A further 107 genera and species of minor importance are treated briefly, while over 150 species which play an auxiliary role or provide fuelwood but have another primary use are listed.

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