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Shiro TSUYUZAKI
Plant community ecology / Environmental conservation

Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

(Update on December 29 2011)

Crop

Crop (作物)

Plants and fungi grown to be harvested for economic purposes, such as food, fodder, and fuel.

Crops

Summarized by C. Appiah

(Common) millet

Panicum miliaceum L. (キビ, 黍) (Poaceae)

*African Food Staples: Millet

Origin, and brief description

*Photoperiod Sensitivity of Local Sorghum and Millet Varieties in West Africa

Seed germination characteristics

*Millet seeds

Cultivation

(California) black-eye pea

Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. (ササゲ, 六角豆) (Fabaceae)

*Black-eyed pea

From the general to the particular

*California black-eye peas

Cultivation

*Cowpeas

Description on the characteristics

*Cowpeas

Utilizing for pastures

Agushi / Egusi

Colocynthis citrullus (L.) O. Kuntze var. lanatus (Syn. Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. et Naka (スイカ, 西瓜) (Cucurbitaceae)

*Egusi

General description

*What is egushi?

food

References

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