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Crop Evolution, Adaptation and Yield (Hardcover)
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Crop Evolution, Adaptation and Yield (Hardcover)
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In this major 1993 work, Lloyd Evans provides an integrated view of
the domestication, adaptation and improvement of crop plants,
bringing together genetic diversity, plant breeding, physiology and
aspects of agronomy. Considerations of yield and maximum yield
provide continuity throughout the book. Food, feed, fibre, fuel and
pharmaceutical crops are all discussed. Cereals, grain legumes and
root crops, both temperate and tropical, provide many of the
examples, but pasture plants, oilseeds, leafy crops, fruit trees
and others are also considered. After the introductory chapter, the
increasing significance of crop yields to the world's food supply
is highlighted. The next three chapters consider changes to crop
plants over the last ten thousand years, including domestication,
adaptation and improvement. Aimed at research workers and advanced
students in crop physiology and ecology, agronomy and plant
breeding, this book also reaches conclusions of relevance to those
concerned with developmental policy, agricultural research and
management, environmental quality, resource depletion and human
history.
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