Ladizinsky, Gideon. <br/><br/>
Plant evolution under domestication / 
Gideon  Ladizinsky. 
 - Dordrecht ;  New York :  Kluwer Academic Publishers,  1998. 
 - 254 p. :  ill., map ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-247). 
<br/><br/>Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1. Origin of agriculture -- 1.1 The economy of hunter-gatherers -- 1.2 Agriculture, cultivation, domestication and their meanings -- 1.3 Transition from foraging to farming -- 1.4 The beginning of evolution under domestication -- 1.5 Time and place of domestication -- 1.6 Patterns of domestication -- 1.7 Botany of crop plants -- 1.8 Centers of plant domestication -- 1.9 Conclusions -- Chapter 2. Increasing diversity under domestication -- 2.1 Mutations and their effect -- 2.2 Hybridization -- 2.3 Barriers to introgression -- 2.4 Crop diffusion -- 2.5 Manipulating genetic variation by breeding -- 2.6 Developing new variation by transgenesis -- 2.7 Conclusions -- Chapter 3. The course of reducing and maintaining genetic -- diversity under domestication -- 3.1 Selection -- 3.2 Genetic drift -- 3.3 Conclusions -- Chapter 4. Speciation under domestication -- 4.1 The species concept -- 4.2 The process of speciation -- 4.3 Instantaneous formation of RIBs -- 4.4 Speciation under domestication -- 4.5 Conclusions -- Chapter 5. Weeds and their evolution -- 5.1 Definitions of weeds -- 5.2 Origin of weeds -- 5.3 Biological characteristics of weeds -- 5.4 Weed evolution -- 5.5 Conclusions -- Chapter 6. Evolution of selected crop plants -- 6.1 Faba bean, Vicia faba (Leguminosae-Papilionideae) -- 6.2 Chickpea, Cicer arietinum (Leguminosae-Papilionideae) -- 6.3 Barley, Hordeum vulgare (Gramineae-Triticinae) -- 6.4 Maize, Zea mays (Gramineae-Maydeae) -- 6.5 Oats, Avena spp. (Gramineae-Aveneae) -- 6.6 Lettuce, Lactuca sativa (Compositae) -- 6.7 Carrot, Daucus carota (Umbelliferae) -- 6.8 Potato, Solanum tuberosum (Solanaceae) -- 6.9 Almond, Amygdalus communis (Rosaceae) -- 6.10 Grapes, Vitis vinifera (Vitiaceae) -- 6.11 Bananas, Musa (Musaceae) -- 6.12 Vetch, Vicia sativa (Leguminosae-Papilionideae) -- Chapter 7. Genetic resources for future crop evolution -- 7.1 Cultivated germplasm -- 7.2 Identifying, locating and collecting wild genetic resources -- 7.3 The field work -- 7.4 Gene banks and their role -- 7.5 In situ conservation -- References -- Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780412822100 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Plant breeding.<br/>Crops--Evolution.<br/>Plant genetic engineering.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>631.52 LAD