%0 Dataset
%T Soviet plant materials
%J Arid Land Ecology and Resources Science Data Center
%I Arid Land Ecology and Resources Science Data Center(data.dcxjegi.cn)
%U https://data.dcxjegi.cn/portal/metadata/8d67e182-0606-432a-a1f6-f81debb10550
%W NCDC
%R 10.12389/ariddc.02365
%A Documentation Information Center
%K Plant resources of the Soviet Union;Economic value plants
%X This two-volume publication, the first volume of which appeared in 1950, is intended to provide botanists and production specialists of various fields with a concise introduction to the richness and diversity of the plant raw materials of the Soviet Union, to indicate the future directions of raw-material studies, and to demonstrate the possibilities for satisfying the raw-material requirements of the nation’s industry and agriculture.The first volume, in addition to the thematic article The Natural Sources of Plant Raw Materials and the Laws Governing Their Distribution by M. M. Il’in, includes papers describing the principal groups of plant raw materials that are already utilized in the Soviet Union or hold promise for future utilization. These groups belong to the category of technical plants, that is, plants that require a certain degree of industrial processing before they can be used.The second volume contains reviews of natural plants that can be used directly or require only minimal processing before serving as sources of raw materials. Such plants include food plants, forage plants, vitamin-bearing plants, and medicinal plants, all of which provide an extraordinarily wide range of products and commodities. The second volume also contains the paper On the Complex Utilization of Plant Raw Materials by P. A. Yakimov, which substantiates the necessity of the comprehensive utilization of plant raw materials as a means of reducing the production costs of corresponding commodities.The task facing Soviet scientists is a complex one: within a short period of time, it is necessary to discover valuable plant resources capable of providing broader supplies of inexpensive raw materials for the needs of national industry and agriculture and thereby fully satisfying the material requirements of working people. The Department of Plant Resources of the Botanical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, together with the republican academies and branches of the Acad