Growing Food: A Guide to Food Production

332 INDEX

Salt tolerance in plants 16–17, 130
Saprophytes 84
Secondary nutrients 24
Secur 57
Seed45–59

• germination46–51, 76, 89, 111,
  116


• inoculation 54–57


• longevity 51


• moisture content 100


• rate 52


• recalcitrant 51


• storage life 103


• treatment/dressing 57


• viability 50


• vigour 50, 100
  Seedless fruit 3, 243
  Self-pollination 2,3
  SesameSesamum indicum198–200
  Sesbania drummondii 68
  Shaddock (Pomelo) 254 , 255, 305, 308
  Shade crops 64–65
  Shade plants/Sun plants 40
  Shattering of seed 42, 76, 200
  Short-day/Long-day plants 42
  Silage 72
  SiratroMacroptilium atropurpureum
  70
  Slugs 78, 211
  Slurry 31
  Smother crops 64
  Sodium 15, 16, 18, 23, 28 , 29 , 96, 99
  Soil11–19


• acid / pH value 20–23


• analysis 18–20


• capping / crusting 14


• profile 9,11


• saline 15–17, 130


• texture 9,19


• triangle 19


• type 19
  Solanaceae (Nightshade family) 221
  Solanine 209

Storage of food and seed 100–103

Striga/Witch Weed 63, 89–90, 121,

136, 138, 140, 310

Strobiluron fungicides 86

Subsoil 11

Sulphur 26, 27

Sun plants/Shade plants 40

SunflowerHelianthus annuus 201–203

Sunn Hemp/Crotalaria Crotalaria

juncea 65, 70, 89

Support crops 62

Sweet PotatoIpomoea batatas212–214

Swidden 65

Synonym 36

TaroColocasia spp. 215–217

Taxonomy 36

TeffEragrostis tef 140–143

Temperature—effect on plants 40

TeosinteEuchlaena mexicana 89 , 289

Tepary Bean Phaseolus acutifolius

var. latifolius 282 – 284

TGW (thousand grain weight) 52, 153

TomatoLycopersicon esculentum

240–243

Tools 92–93

Top dressing 35 , 120, 127, 145, 264

Trace elements 23–29

Transpiration 39

Trap crops 63, 64, 80, 89

Triazole fungicides 86

TriticaleTriticosecale 16, 59, 108,

133

Tuber 41, 44

SorghumSorghum bicolor135–140

SoybeanGlycine max182–185

Split dressing 34

Spring varieties 59

Squash 229

Stamen/Staminate 2

Stigma 1

Stolon (runner) 41

Stomata 9, 26, 39