Mansfeld's Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops - Except Ornamentals

The long-awaited English edition of the famous "Mansfeld" gives a full account of all agricultural and horticultural plants, other than ornamentals, grown throughout the world presently or in the past. Over 6000 species are covered, including food crops, forage, oil, fibre, and others. For the genera and species information is given on the synonyms, trivial names, occurance, usage, variability and phylogeny. Summaries are given on some hundreds of additional species which have been grown under experimental conditions or in breeding programs. Reference is also made to crops which hardly differ from their wild forms or grown only locally and regionally. This work is a unique documentation of the wide potential of cultivable plants.

About the author

Dr. habil. Peter Hanelt war Leiter der Abteilung Taxonomie des Instituts für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung in Gatersleben. Sein Spezialgebiet ist die Systematik der Kulturpflanzen. Er ist international bekannt geworden.

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From the reviews:

"This is truly a landmark text, presenting the labors of several decades by the world's leading systematic botanists and plant collectors. This book is an indispensable reference work on the world's economic plants, and it belongs in every botanical and horticultural library." Chicago Botanic Garden Web Site

"This Mansfeld is rightly promoted as a very useful and indispensable work of reference for the specialist worldwide due to the vast amount of information. This work is a rich treasure-house for all those who want to inform themselves on certain aspects or groups of cultural plants." Journal of Plant Physiology

"...a biological or agricultural institute must have it in its library as the encyclopedia will be a standard reference in this field for the next decades." Feddes Repertorium. Zeitschrift für botanische Taxonomie und Geobotanik

"This is the authoritative study of the world s useful plants . This is truly a landmark text, presenting the labours of several decades by the world s leading systematic botanists and plant collectors. This book is an indispensable reference work on the world s economic plants and it belongs in every botanical and horticultural library. For the indefinite future, no treatment of non-ornamental plant by any author or researcher can pretend to be complete without careful study of this masterpiece." (John F. Swenson, Chicago Botanic Garden, Vol. 4 (1), 2002)

" Mansfeld s Encyclopaedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops is a monograph dedicated to basic knowledge on cultivated plants. It represents a thesaurus absolutely needed . the new edition of The Mansfeld may be regarded a corner stone, a turning point in the history of botany and in some respects even in the history of science. All persons and institutions working with this new worldwide edition made a lasting service to science and contributed to its evolution." (Attila T. Szabó, Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, Vol. 50, 2003)

"About 20 authors contributed to the encyclopaedia. Due to the excellent work of the editor the whole Encyclopaedia is very homogenous despite the high number of contributors and it is a pleasure to work with it. a botanical or agricultural institute must have it in its library as the encyclopaedia will be a standard reference in this field for the next decades." (Th. Stützel, Feddes Repertorium, Vol. 113 (1-2), 2002)

"The English Mansfeld is an excellent work. It has a clear, uniform layout . This Mansfeld is rightly promoted as a very useful and indispensable work of reference for the specialist worldwide due to the vast amount of information. This work is a rich treasure-house . It is a standard work for every researcher in the field of cultural plants. it is warmly recommended that the Mansfeld should at least be present in the libraries of all universities and institutes." (Norbert Leist, Journal of Plant Physiology, Vol. 159 (4), 2002)

"An impressive number of species is included, more than 6000, and a considerable amount of work must have been required to produce it. Many references are included; indeed volume 6, the thickest volume, is made up almost entirely of references and indexes. Scientists and postgraduate students working on the taxonomy of agricultural and horticultural crops will find it a useful source of information." (D. Wilman, Journal of Agricultural Science, Vol. 137, 2001)

Product details

• Assisted by: R. Kilian (Drawings), W. Kilian (Drawings), Peter Hanelt (Editor), Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.09.2014
• EAN: 9783642535048
• ISBN: 978-3-642-53504-8
• No. of pages: 3641
• Weight: 5637 g
• Illustrations: 3 Tabellen, 291 SW-Abb.
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany