Bamboo The Plant and its Uses
This book presents the state-of-the-art knowledge on bamboo. It starts with an introduction to the plant’s biology, its taxonomy, habitat, morphology and growth. The cultivation of bamboo is discussed in terms of silviculture, pests and diseases, an
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Walter Liese Michael Köhl Editors
Bamboo The Plant and its Uses
Tropical Forestry Series Editor Michael Köhl, Hamburg, Germany
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/5439
Walter Liese • Michael Ko¨hl Editors
Bamboo The Plant and its Uses
Editors Walter Liese Department of Wood Science University of Hamburg Hamburg Germany
Michael Ko¨hl Department of Wood Science University of Hamburg Hamburg Germany
Series Editor Michael Ko¨hl Department of Wood Science University of Hamburg Hamburg, Germany
ISSN 1614-9785 Tropical Forestry ISBN 978-3-319-14132-9 ISBN 978-3-319-14133-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-14133-6
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Preface
Bamboo is the fastest-growing and most versatile plant on Earth. For centuries, bamboo has played an indispensible part in the daily life of millions of people in tropical countries. In the last decades, it has gained increasing importance as a substitute for timber. Bamboo is a unique group of tall grasses with woody jointed stems. Bamboo belongs to the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae (or Graminaceae). There are about 75 genera with approximately 1,300 species and varieties covering 25 million hectares worldwide. In cooler and temperate regions of Central Asia, bamboo plants grow single stemmed apart from each other (leptomorph type) or in dense clumps (pachymorph type) in warm, tropical regions of Western Asia, Southeast Asia, and South America. The culm (stem) is mostly hollow and characterized by nodes with internodes in between. The nodes give the plant its strength. The culms arise from buds at the underground shoot–root system, the so-called rhizome. Shoots emer
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