Amber Waves - The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, From Wild Grass to World

Zabinski combines history, ecology and attention to evolutionary processes to tell the story of wheat and the human agricultural handling of it.

About the author

Catherine Zabinski is professor of plant and soil ecology in the Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences at Montana State University in Bozeman. She received a fellowship from the Arthur P. Sloan Foundation to work on this book.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Zabinski
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780226553719
• ISBN: 978-0-226-55371-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; NATURE / Plants / General, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, History of Science, Trees, wildflowers & plants, Botany & plant sciences, Agricultural Economics, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest, Botany and plant sciences, Agricultural and rural economics