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 /

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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,...

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Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Other Authors: Cross, Hugh (Hugh B.) (Editor), Motley, Timothy (Editor), Zerega, Nyree (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Crops > Evolution
Crops > Origin
Plant conservation
Dictionaries
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • 1. Crop Plants: Past, Present, and Future / Motley, Timothy J.
  • PART 1. GENETICS AND ORIGIN OF CROPS. Evolution and Domestication
  • 2. Molecular Evidence and the Evolutionary History of the Domesticated Sunflower / Rieseberg, Loren H. / Harter, Abigail V.
  • 3. Molecular Evidence of Sugarcane Evolution and Domestication / Grivet, Laurent / Glaszmann, Jean-Christophe / D'Hont, Angélique
  • 4. Maize Origins, Domestication, and Selection / Buckler, Edward S. / Stevens, Natalie M.
  • 5. Contributions of Tripsacum to Maize Diversity / Eubanks, Mary W.
  • PART 2. SYSTEMATICS AND THE ORIGIN OF CROPS. Phylogenetic and Biogeographic Relationships
  • 6. Evolution of Genetic Diversity in Phaseolus vulgaris L. / Papa, Roberto / Nanni, Laura / Sicard, Delphine / Rau, Domenico / Attene, Giovanna
  • 7. Cladistic Biogeography of Juglans ( Juglandaceae) Based on Chloroplast DNA Intergenic Spacer Sequences / Aradhya, Mallikarjuna K. / Potter, Daniel / Simon, Charles J.
  • 8. Origin and Diversifi cation of Chayote / Cross, Hugh / Lira Saade, Rafael / Motley, Timothy J.
  • PART 3. THE DESCENT OF MAN. Human History and Crop Evolution
  • 9. Using Modern Landraces of Wheat to Study the Origins of European Agriculture / Brown, Terence A. / Lindsay, Sarah / Allaby, Robin G.
  • 10. Breadfruit Origins, Diversity, and Human-Facilitated Distribution / Zerega, Nyree / Ragone, Diane / Motley, Timothy J.
  • 11. Genetic Relationship Between Dioscorea alata L. and D. nummularia Lam. as Revealed by AFLP Markers / Malapa, Roger / Noyer, Jean-Louis / Marchand, Jean-Leu / Lebot, Vincent
  • PART 4. VARIATION OF PLANTS UNDER SELECTION. Agrodiversity and Germplasm Conservation
  • 12. Evolution, Domestication, and Agrobiodiversity in the Tropical Crop Cassava / Schaal, Barbara A. / Olsen, Kenneth M. / Carvalho, Luiz J. C. B.
  • 13. Origins, Evolution, and Group Classifi cation of Cultivated Potatoes / Spooner, David M. / Hetterscheid, Wilbert L. A.
  • 14. Evolution and Conservation of Clonally Propagated Crops: Insights from AFLP Data and Folk Taxonomy of the Andean Tuber Oca ( Oxalis tuberosa ) / Emshwiller, Eve
  • 15. Crop Genetics on Modern Farms: Gene Flow Between Crop Populations / Birnbaum, Kenneth
  • Appendix II. Molecular Analyses / Motley, Timothy J. / Cross, Hugh / Zerega, Nyree / Aradhya, Mallikarjuna K.
  • Index

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