People, plants, and genes the story of crops and humanity /
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| Format: | Electronisk eBog |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Serier: | Oxford biology.
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| Online adgang: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- 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.