Evolution of Crop Plants

by Smartt, J.; Simmonds, Norman

• ISBN13: 9780582086432
• ISBN10: 0582086434
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-08-03
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The second edition of this classic volume provides comprehensive coverage of over one hundred of the world's major economically significant crop plants and their wild ancestors. The crops featured range from cereals to tropical staples, beans and pulses, vegetables, fruits, cash crops, oil crops and spices. Information on crop evolution is vital in the current effort to understand and conserve biodiversity, and provide a basis for the improvement of plant species. The second edition takes into account the rapid advances made in this field with the advent of new molecular techniques and our ever growing understanding of genetics. Evolution of Crop Plants is an excellent resource for plant breeders and biotechnologists, seed producers, plant pathologists and researchers in agriculture, crop evolution and conservation. For each crop, the book includes a detailed examination of:

Author Biography

Joseph Smartt was a British geneticist with major contributions to the knowledge of crop evolution, especially of grain legumes. Norman Simmonds is the author of Evolution of Crop Plants, 2nd Edition, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Kiwifruit

Sisal and relatives

Grain amaranths

Cashew

Pistachio nut

Kapok

Pineapple

Tea

Hemp

Hops

Sugarbeet, etc

Quinoa, etc

Safflower

Sunflower

Lettuce

Sweet potato

Turnip, etc

Swedes and rapes

Cabbages, kales, etc

Mustards

Radish

Cucumbers

Melons and water-melons

Squashes, pumpkins and gourds

Minor cucurbits

Yams

Blueberry, cranberry etc

Rubber

Cassava

Oats

Finger millet

Barley

Rice

Pearl millet

Sugar cane

Rye

Foxtail millet

Sorghum

Triticale

Wheats

Maize

Minor cereals

Temperate forage grasses

Tropical and sub-tropical grasses

Currants

Avocado

Groundnut

Pigeonpea

Centrosema

Chickpea

Soybean

Grasspea

Lentil

leucaena

Lupins

Alfalfa

Beans

Pea

Winged bean

Stylos

White clover

Faba bean

Narbon bean

Grams

Cowpea

Temperate forage legumes

Onion, etc

Okra

Cotton

Fig

Bananas

Clove

Olive

Pejibaye

Coconut

Oil palm

Date palm

Sesame

Black pepper

Buckwheat

Strawberry

Apple, pear

Cherry, plum, peach, apricot, almond

Blackberry, raspberry

Quinine

Coffee

Citrus

Peppers

Tomato

Tobacco

Eggplant

Potato

Cacao

Jute

Carrot

Umbelliferous minor crops

Grape

Herb spices

Tree spices

Timber trees

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