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Plant Genetic Conservation
The recent development of ideas on biodiversity conservation was already being considered almost three-quarters of a century ago for crop plants and the wild species related to them, by the Russian geneticist N.!. Vavilov. He was undoubtedly the first scientist to understand the impor tance for humankind of conserving for utilization the genetic diversity of our ancient crop plants and their wild relatives from their centres of diversity. His collections showed various traits of adaptation to environ mental extremes and biotypes of crop diseases and pests which were unknown to most plant breeders in the first quarter of the twentieth cen tury. Later, in the 1940s-1960s scientists began to re...
The History and Social Influence of the Potato
A reissue of a scholarly classic considers the influence of the potato on the social structure and economy throughout history wherever men adopted it as a mainstay of their diets.
The Ex Situ Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources
It is a distressing truism that the human race during the last millennium has caused the exponential loss of plant genetic diversity throughout the world. This has had direct and negative economic, political and social consequences for the human race, which at the same time has failed to exploit fully the positive benefits that might result from conserving and exploiting the world's plant genetic resources. However, a strong movement to halt this loss of plant diversity and enhance its utilisation for the benefit of all humanity has been underway since the 1960's (Frankel and Bennett, 1970; Frankel and Hawkes, 1975). This initiative was taken up by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD, 1992) that not only expounds the need to conserve biological diversity but links conservation to exploitation and development for the benefit of all. Article 8 of the Convention clearly states the need to develop more effective and efficient guidelines to conserve biological diversity, while Article 9, along with the FAO International Undertaking on Plant Genetic Resources, promotes the adoption of a complementary approach to conservation that incorporates both ex situ and in situ techniques.
Mansfeld's Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
With contributions by numerous experts
Plant Inventory
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POTATO
Completely rewritten, updated, and expanded edition of the standard botany of the tuber-bearing solanums (potatoes), last revised in 1963. Describes more than 220 species of wild and cultivated potato, giving full details of taxonomy, characteristics and range. Introductory chapters cover history, breeding and genetics, cytology and evolution, ecology and distribution, and detailed taxonomic descriptions. Lacks coverage only of the couch variety. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Crop Genetic Resources for Today and Tomorrow
Genetic variation in plant populations. Exploration. Evaluation problems. Conservation and storage. Documentation and information management. Genetic resources centres.
The Potato Crop
Research and publications on the potato crop have burgeoned since the first edition of this book was published in 1978. However, the warm reception of the first edition suggested that it had a useful part to play in promoting the scientific basis for understanding and improving the yield and quality of the crop. Since the first edition was out of print and a second reprint would not have taken into account the contributions made by research over the intervening years, it became obvious that a complete revision was necessary. There was, in particular, a need to take account of the rapid extension of interest in the crop into climates and farming systems with which it has not been traditionall...
The Potato Crop
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