Harlan's crops and man : people, plants and their domestication / / H. Thomas Stalker, Marilyn Warburton, and Jack Harlan

• Autore: Stalker H. T (Harold Thomas), <1950->
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , [2021]; ©2021
• Edizione: Third edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 633
• Soggetto topico: Agriculture - History; Crops - History
• Persona (resp. second.): HarlanJack R (Jack Rodney); WarburtonMarilyn
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Prologue: The Golden Age -- Crop Evolution -- The Hunter-Gatherer Stereotype -- What Do Gatherers Eat? -- Grass Seeds (Potential Cereals) -- Legumes (Potential Pulses) -- Root and Tuber Plants -- Oil Plants -- Fruits and Nuts -- Vegetables -- Summary -- Understanding Life Cycles of Plants -- General Botanical Knowledge -- Manipulation of Vegatation -- Food Plants in Ritual and Ceremony -- On Sharing the Bounty -- Population Control and the Aged -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 2 Views on Agricultural Origins -- Agriculture as Divine Gift -- Domestication for Religious Reasons -- Domestication by Crowding -- Agriculture as Discovery -- Agriculture by Stress -- Agriculture as an Extension of Gathering -- Domestication by Perception -- A No-Model Model -- Geography of Plant Domestication -- An Ecological Approach -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3 What Is a Crop? -- Definitions -- Intermediate States -- Baobab Tree -- Acacia -- Karité Tree -- Oil Palm -- Sago Palm -- Ethiopian Oats -- Additional Examples -- A Short List of Cultivated Plants -- Crops That Feed the World -- References -- Chapter 4 What Is a Weed? -- Definitions -- Intermediate States -- Crop-Weed Complexes -- Some Weed Adaptations -- Weeds and History -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5 Classification of Cultivated Plants -- Botanical Descriptions and Names -- Problems of Formal Taxonomy -- The Gene Pool System -- Species -- Subspecies -- Evolutionary Implications -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6 The Dynamics of Domestication -- Domestication of Seed Crops -- Cereals -- Other Seed Crops -- Domestication of Vegetatively Reproduced Crops -- Vegetative Propagation -- Grafting -- Ornamentals -- Summary -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 7 Space, Time, and Variation. ; Kinds of Patterns of Variation -- Endemic -- Semiendemic -- Monocentric -- Oligocentric -- Noncentric -- Noncentric Crops -- Diffuse Origins -- Microcenters -- Landrace Populations -- Implications for Plant Breeding -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 8 The Near East -- Introduction -- Archaeological Prelude -- A Note About Dating Archaeological Sites -- Archaeological Sequence of Village Sites -- Spread of Agriculture Out of the Nuclear Area -- Recorded History -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 9 Indigenous African Agriculture -- Introduction -- Archaeological Prelude -- A Savanna Complex -- Crop Competition and Distribution -- Recorded History -- Décrue Agriculture -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10 The Far East -- Archaeological Prelude -- Recorded History -- Far Eastern Crops -- Northern China -- Eastern China Coastal Plain -- Southern China -- Asia and South Pacific -- The Millets -- Soybean -- Rice -- Sugarcane -- Bananas and Plantains -- Coconut -- Orange -- Mango -- Yams -- Hunter-Gatherers of Japan -- Plant Domestication in India -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 11 The Americas -- Archaeology -- The Crops -- Cereals -- Beans -- Tomato -- Squash -- Sunflower -- Peppers -- Peanut -- Root and Tuber Crops -- Sweet Potato -- Cotton -- Tobacco -- Rubber -- Fruits, Nuts, and Ornamentals -- Forage Legumes -- Indigenous Americans as Biochemists -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 12 Epilogue: Who's in Charge Here? -- References -- EULA.
• Sommario/riassunto: "The proposed third edition of Crops and Man will maintain the structure of the previous works and maintain most of Dr. Harlan's user friendly text, but will also add recently discovered information, correct errors in previous volumes where needed, fill in gaps in utilization of wild species and landraces, explore mechanisms of transforming a wild plant into a domesticate, expand the section on germplasm preservation, and add information about multiple crops in the Near East and Africa, as was done for the Far East and Americas in the second edition. Importantly, the third edition will reintroduce the subject of crop plant evolution to new students of crop science"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Harlan's crops and man
• ISBN: 0-89118-636-0; 0-89118-634-4; 0-89118-635-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910829997603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: ASA, CSSA, and SSSA Bks.