Food and crop science, pharmacy and pharmacology, and biometrics are among the fields of contributors to this thorough reference to hemp and its application to industrial uses. The topics include the physiology and botany of industrial hemp, legislative controls on the cultivation of hemp, integrated quality management for bast fibers in technical applications, hemp in papermaking, hemp seeds for nutrition, chemical and morphological differences in hemp varieties, and the role of hemp in sustainable development. Distributed in the US by Stylus Publishing. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)