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 /

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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Other Authors: Motley, Timothy J., 1965- (Editor), Zerega, Nyree (Editor), Cross, Hugh (Hugh B.) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Crops > Origin.
Crops > Evolution.
Plant conservation.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Agronomy > Crop Science.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biological Diversity.
Crops > Evolution
Crops > Origin
Plant conservation
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • 1. Crop plants: past, present, and future
  • PART 1. Genetics and origin of crops: Evolution and dmestication. 2. Molecular evidence and the evolutionary history of the domesticated sunflower
  • 3. Molecular evidence of sugarcane evolution and domestication
  • 4. Maize origins, domestication, and selection
  • 5. Contributions of tripsacum to maize diversity
  • PART 2. Systematics and the origin of crops: Phylogenetic and biogeographic relationships. 6. Evolution of genetic diversity in Phaseolus vulgaris L.
  • 7. Cladistic biogeography of juglans (juglandaceae) based on chloroplast DNA intergenic spacer sequences
  • 8. Origin and diversification of chayote
  • PART 3. The descent of man: Human history and crop evolution. 9. Using modern landraces of wheat to study the origins of European agriculture
  • 10. Breadfruit origins, diversity, and human-facilitated distribution
  • 11. Genetic relationship between Dioscorea alata L. and D. nummularia Lam. as revealed by AFLP markers
  • PART 4. Variations of plants unders selection: Agrodiversity and germplasm conservation. 12. Evolution, domestication, and agrobiodiversity in the tropical crop cassava
  • 13. Origins, evolution, and group classification of cultivated potatoes
  • 14. Evolution and conservation of clonally propagated crops: Insights from AFLP data and folk taxonomy of the Andean tuber oca (axalis tuberosa)
  • 15. Crop genetics on modern farms: Gene flow between crop populations
  • Appendix I. Molecular marker and sequencing methods and related terms
  • Appendix II. Molecular aalyses
  • Index.

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