Plant evolution and the origin of crop species /

• Main Author: Hancock, James F., (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
• Edition: 3rd edition.
• Subjects: Crops > Evolution.; Crops > Origin.; Plants > Evolution.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Field Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Plant Morphology and Structure.; Plant Production.; Biological Resources (Plant); Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Taxonomy and Evolution.; Agriculture.; Cereals.; Chromosome number.; Conservation.; Domestication.; Evolution.; Fibre plants.; Fruit crops.; Genes.; Genetic variation.; Genomes.; Genomics.; Germplasm.; In situ conservation.; Oil plants.; Origin.; Plant genetic resources.; Polyploidy.; Speciation.; Starch crops.; Sugar crops.; Vegetables.; Electronic books.
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This book is divided into two parts. Part 1 deals with the evolutionary processes, describing the chromosome structure, genetic variation, multifactorial genome, polyploidy, gene duplication and speciation. Part 2 deals with the origins of agriculture and the dynamics of plant domestication, coverin...

Table of Contents:

• Chromosome structure and genetic variability
• Assortment of genetic variability
• The multifactorial genome
• Polyploidy and gene duplication
• Speciation
• Origins of agriculture
• The dynamics of plant domestication
• Cereal grains
• Protein plants
• Starchy staples and sugar
• Fruits, vegetables, fibers and oils
• Postscript: germplasm resources.