Caper (Capparis spp.) Growing Techniques and Economical Importance

Caper (Capparis spp.) Growing Techniques and Economical Importance

Güleryüz, Muharrem
Özkan, Gürsel
Ercisli, Sezai

Caper has been using as a medicinal and aromatic plant for a long time in particular Mediterranean basin. More recently there have been obvious increased interest to this plant because of a wide culinary and medicinal use areas of this plant. Anatolia is one of the natural growing areas of this plant and local people use it in several ways. The plant has an important commercial value. Particularly in dry areas, the plant naturally found and preventing erosion. In this review we gave information about caper production possibilities, growing techniques, history etc.

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2009-06

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