The potato : evolution, biodiversity and genetic resources
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The potato : evolution, biodiversity and genetic resources
Belhaven, 1990
- : pbk
Available at 9 libraries
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Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences Library
616.8||Haw||||図書館J0632489
Note
Bibliography: p. [240]-246
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is an expanded, completely rewritten and updated new edition of Professor Hawkes' definitive botany of the tuber-bearing solanums (potatoes), last revised in 1963. Professor Hawkes is the leading world authority on the botany, genetics, breeding and cultivation of the potato and this work encapsulates a lifetime's distinguished botanical work. There are descriptions of over 220 species of wild and cultivated potato, which give full details of taxonomy, characteristics and range. Introductory chapters cover the history of the species, their breeding and genetics, cytology and evolution, econology and geographical distribution and a detailed taxonomic listing. This is an essential reference work for all scientists concerned with this major food crop, including botanists, geneticists, plant breeders, agriculturalists, biochemists and phytopathologists.
Table of Contents
- The origin and first home of the potato
- the spread of the potato round the world
- potato cytology and reproductive biology
- potato evolution
- potato systematics and biodiversity
- genetic resouces of the potato. Appendices: classification, ploidy level and country of origin of the better-known and cultivated potato species and their allies in the genus "Solanum", section "Petota"
- series, species and subspecies names, listed taxonomically, with their standard abbreviations.
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