People, plants, and genes : the story of crops and humanity
| Parallelsachtitel: |
People, plants, & genes |
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| 1. Verfasser: |
Murphy, Denis J.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xxiv, 401 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Oxford biology
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| Schlagworte: | |
| Parallelausgabe: |
People, plants, and genes (Online version) |
| Online Zugang: |
Table of contents only |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Early human societies and their plants
- Plant management and agriculture
- How some people became farmers
- Plant genomes
- Fluid genomes, uncertain species, and the genetics of crop domestication
- The domestication of cereal crops
- The domestication of non-cereal crops
- People and the emergence of crops
- Agriculture : a mixed blessing
- Evolution of agrourban cultures : I The Near East
- Evolution of agrourban cultures : II south and east Asia
- Evolution of agrourban cultures : III Africa, Europe, and the Americas
- Crop management in the classical and medieval periods
- Agricultural improvement and the rise of crop breeding
- Imperial botany and the early scientific breeders
- Agricultural improvement in modern times
- The future of agriculture and humanity.
