Legumes: The Australian Experience. The Botany, Ecology, and Agriculture of Indigenous and Immigrant Legumes. 1993. (Research Studies in Botany and Related Applied Fields,no.12). figs. tabs. XIII,471 p. gr8vo. Hard cover.

This study of the origin, development and importance of native andintroduced legumes in Australia exemplifies how a plant family canaffect the vegetation and environment of a country. The book describesthe difficulties that can be encountered in introducing a commercialexotic species so that it plays a major part in a nation's agriculture,and the many years of research by scientists, and trial and error byfarmers, that may be needed before varieties and systems of managementare developed. It is shown that the rewards from introducing varietiesof exotic species which are adapted to a nation's physical and economicenvironment can be very great, even though some unforeseen problems maybe created by the introductions.