ABOUT THE COLLECTION

Desert Plants is a unique botanical journal published by The University of Arizona for Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum. This journal is devoted to encouraging the appreciation of indigenous and adapted arid land plants. Desert Plants publishes a variety of manuscripts intended for amateur and professional desert plant enthusiasts. A few of the diverse topics covered include desert horticulture, landscape architecture, desert ecology, and history. First published in 1979, Desert Plants is currently published biannually with issues in June and December.

Digital access to this material is made possible by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum, and the University Libraries at the University of Arizona.

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• The Tepary Connection: A Visit with W. D. Hood
• Tepary Cuisine
• The Nutritional Significance of Tepary Bean Consumption
• Tepary Beans, O'Odham Farmers and Desert Fields
• Cultivation and Use of Teparies in Sonora, Mexico
• Teparies as a Source of Useful Traits for Improving Common Beans
• Sources of Tepary Seed and Rhizobia
• Gene Transfer Between Tepary and Common Beans
• Growing Teparies in the Desert