People, plants, and genes : the story of crops and humanity / Denis J. Murphy.
Material type: TextSeries: Oxford biologyPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.Description: xxiv, 401 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:- 9780199207145
- People, plants, & genes [Cover title]
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-390) and index.
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.
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