Darwin's Harvest : New Approaches to the Origins, Evolution, and Conservation of Crops
Editorial Reviews
Review
"The authors assembled for Darwin's Harvest are first-rate and the stories they have to tell are interesting. New and surprising insights into several crops are presented in this book, which compiles a solid body of data on numerous crops in an easily accessible volume." -- Beryl Simpson, University of Texas at Austin
"The most cutting-edge analyses in crop plant studies by some of the biggest names in the field." -- Brian M. Boom, The New York Botanical Garden
Book Description
Darwin's Harvest addresses concerns that we are losing the diversity of crop plants that provide food for most of the world. With contributions from evolutionary biologists, geneticists, agronomists, molecular biologists, and anthropologists, this collection discusses how economic development, loss of heirloom varieties and wild ancestors, and modern agricultural techniques have endangered the genetic diversity needed to keep agricultural crops vital and capable of adaptation.
Drawing on the most up-to-date data, the contributors review the utilization of molecular techniques to understand crop evolution. They explore current research on various crop plants of both temperate and tropical origin, including maize, sunflower, avocado, sugarcane, and wheat. The chapters in Darwin's Harvest also provide solid background for understanding many recent discoveries concerning the origins of crops and the influence of human migration and farming practices on the genetics of our modern foods.
Darwin's Harvest : New Approaches to the Origins, Evolution, and Conservation of Crops
Darwin's Harvest: New Approaches to the Origins, Evolution, and Conservation of Crops,Timothy J. Motley,Nyree Zerega,Hugh Cross,Columbia University Press,0231133162,Agriculture - Agronomy,Agriculture - Crop Science,Crops,Evolution,Life Sciences - Biological Diversity,Life Sciences - Evolution,Origin,Plant conservation,Science,Science/Mathematics,Technology & Industrial Arts,Science / Genetics
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