Yang Yuming and Wang Kanglin1
A review is made of the historical and present use of bamboo species in China of which there are more then 500 species representing 40 genera.
The case is made to place utilization of the species on a sustained basis and to conserve the genetic diversity of this great national resource.
1 Southwest Forestry College, Qunmin 650224, China
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