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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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Book category Books in English Technology, engineering, agriculture Agriculture & farming Agronomy & crop production

• Full title: Crop Evolution, Adaptation and Yield
• Author: Lloyd T. Evans
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 514
• EAN: 9780521225717
• ISBN: 052122571X
• ID: 02025707
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 908 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 33 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. March 1993

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