Grass Evolution and Domestication

Klappentext An examination of the domestication of grasses and cereals over the last ten thousand years. Zusammenfassung In relation to the origin and spread of grasses! domestication is a recent event confined to about the last ten thousand years and to relatively few grasses. Part I of Grass Evolution and Domestication considers! from an evolutionary point of view! grass taxonomy! the origin and diversification of C4 photosynthesis! S-Z self-incompatibility and apomixis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Natural Diversity: 1. Classification and evolution of the grasses S. A. Renvoize and W. D. Clayton; 2. Diversification of photosynthesis P. W. Hattersley and L. Watson; 3. The S-Z incompatibility system D. L. Hayman; 4. Apomixis and evolution G. P. Chapman; Part II. Domestication: 5. Origins and processes of domestication J. R. Harlan; 6. The three phases of cereal domestication J. M. J. de Wet; 7. Domestication of cereals M. S. Davies and G. C. Hillman; 8. Wheat as a model system E. S. Lagudah and R. Appels; 9. Maize as a model system D. Hoisington; 10. Rice as a model system G. Kochert; 11. Domestication and its changing agenda G. P. Chapman; Appendix: A system of classification for the grasses W. D. Clayton and S. A. Renvioze; Indexes.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: G. P. Chapman, Geoffrey P. Chapman
• Mitarbeit: G. P. Chapman (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 11.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521107273
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10727-3
• Seiten: 412
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Biologie > Landwirtschaft, Gartenbau; Forstwirtschaft, Fischerei, Ernährung; Sachbuch > Natur, Technik > Natur: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke