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Evolution of crop plants

edited by J. Smartt and N.W. Simmonds

Longman Scientific and Technical , Wiley, 1995

2nd ed

  • : Harlow
  • : New York

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: New York ISBN 9780470233726

Description

This is the second edition of a work first published in 1976. It has received excellent reviews. In the seventeen years since it appeared, new techniques have been developed and applied to the subject which has developed enormously. It has not been easy to cover this explosion of information and still keep the size of the volume within reason.
Volume

: Harlow ISBN 9780582086432

Description

The second edition of this classic volume provides comprehensive coverage of over one hundred of the world's major economically significant crop plants and their wild ancestors. The crops featured range from cereals to tropical staples, beans and pulses, vegetables, fruits, cash crops, oil crops and spices. Information on crop evolution is vital in the current effort to understand and conserve biodiversity, and provide a basis for the improvement of plant species. The second edition takes into account the rapid advances made in this field with the advent of new molecular techniques and our ever growing understanding of genetics. Evolution of Crop Plants is an excellent resource for plant breeders and biotechnologists, seed producers, plant pathologists and researchers in agriculture, crop evolution and conservation. For each crop, the book includes a detailed examination of:

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Kiwifruit
  • Sisal and relatives
  • Grain amaranths
  • Cashew
  • Pistachio nut
  • Kapok
  • Pineapple
  • Tea
  • Hemp
  • Hops
  • Sugarbeet, etc
  • Quinoa, etc
  • Safflower
  • Sunflower
  • Lettuce
  • Sweet potato
  • Turnip, etc
  • Swedes and rapes
  • Cabbages, kales, etc
  • Mustards
  • Radish
  • Cucumbers
  • Melons and water-melons
  • Squashes, pumpkins and gourds
  • Minor cucurbits
  • Yams
  • Blueberry, cranberry etc
  • Rubber
  • Cassava
  • Oats
  • Finger millet
  • Barley
  • Rice
  • Pearl millet
  • Sugar cane
  • Rye
  • Foxtail millet
  • Sorghum
  • Triticale
  • Wheats
  • Maize
  • Minor cereals
  • Temperate forage grasses
  • Tropical and sub-tropical grasses
  • Currants
  • Avocado
  • Groundnut
  • Pigeonpea
  • Centrosema
  • Chickpea
  • Soybean
  • Grasspea
  • Lentil
  • leucaena
  • Lupins
  • Alfalfa
  • Beans
  • Pea
  • Winged bean
  • Stylos
  • White clover
  • Faba bean
  • Narbon bean
  • Grams
  • Cowpea
  • Temperate forage legumes
  • Onion, etc
  • Okra
  • Cotton
  • Fig
  • Bananas
  • Clove
  • Olive
  • Pejibaye
  • Coconut
  • Oil palm
  • Date palm
  • Sesame
  • Black pepper
  • Buckwheat
  • Strawberry
  • Apple, pear
  • Cherry, plum, peach, apricot, almond
  • Blackberry, raspberry
  • Quinine
  • Coffee
  • Citrus
  • Peppers
  • Tomato
  • Tobacco
  • Eggplant
  • Potato
  • Cacao
  • Jute
  • Carrot
  • Umbelliferous minor crops
  • Grape
  • Herb spices
  • Tree spices
  • Timber trees.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA25538236
  • ISBN
    • 0582086434
    • 0470233729
  • LCCN
    94025791
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Harlow, Essex, England,New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    531 p.
  • Size
    26 cm
  • Classification
  • Subject Headings
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