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The Sugar Beet Crop
Cooke, D.A.; Scott, J.E.
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Description for The Sugar Beet Crop
Paperback. Series: World Crop Series. Num Pages: 700 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PSTD; TDCT; TVK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 38. Weight in Grams: 992.
D.A. Cooke and R.K. Scott Sugar beet is one of just two crops (the other being sugar cane) which constitute the only important sources of sucrose - a product with sweeten ing and preserving properties that make it a major component of, or additive to, a vast range of foods, beverages and pharmaceuticals. Sugar, as sucrose is almost invariably called, has been a valued compo nent of the human diet for thousands of years. For the great majority of that time the only source of pure sucrose was the sugar-cane plant, varieties of which are all species or hybrids within ... Read more
D.A. Cooke and R.K. Scott Sugar beet is one of just two crops (the other being sugar cane) which constitute the only important sources of sucrose - a product with sweeten ing and preserving properties that make it a major component of, or additive to, a vast range of foods, beverages and pharmaceuticals. Sugar, as sucrose is almost invariably called, has been a valued compo nent of the human diet for thousands of years. For the great majority of that time the only source of pure sucrose was the sugar-cane plant, varieties of which are all species or hybrids within ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
700
Condition
New
Series
World Crop Series
Number of Pages
704
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789401066549
SKU
V9789401066549
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for The Sugar Beet Crop
The book clearly presents a very comprehensive account of the crop. The book clearly provides a broad and considered outline of this major crop...it should be available widely in the libraries of colleges, universities and research institutes wherever crop science is studied - Journal of Agricultural Science