Darwin's Harvest : : New Approaches to the Origins, Evolution, and Conservation of Crops / / ed. by Timothy Motley, Hugh Cross, Nyree Zerega.

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• MitwirkendeR: Allaby, Robin G.,; Aradhya, Mallikarjuna K.,; Attene, Giovanna,; Birnbaum, Kenneth,; Brown, Terence A.,; Buckler, Edward S.,; Carvalho, Luiz J. C. B.,; Cross, Hugh,; D'Hont, Angélique,; Emshwiller, Eve,; Eubanks, Mary W.,; Glaszmann, Jean-Christophe,; Grivet, Laurent,; Harter, Abigail V.,; Hetterscheid, Wilbert L. A.,; Lebot, Vincent,; Lindsay, Sarah,; Lira Saade, Rafael,; Malapa, Roger,; Marchand, Jean-Leu,; Motley, Timothy J.,; Nanni, Laura,; Noyer, Jean-Louis,; Olsen, Kenneth M.,; Papa, Roberto,; Potter, Daniel,; Ragone, Diane,; Rau, Domenico,; Rieseberg, Loren H.,; Schaal, Barbara A.,; Sicard, Delphine,; Simon, Charles J.,; Spooner, David M.,; Stevens, Natalie M.,; Ward, Sarah M.,; Zerega, Nyree,
• HerausgeberIn: Cross, Hugh,; Motley, Timothy,; Zerega, Nyree,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; CONTRIBUTORS --; 1. Crop Plants: Past, Present, and Future --; 2. Molecular Evidence and the Evolutionary History of the Domesticated Sunflower --; 3. Molecular Evidence of Sugarcane Evolution and Domestication --; 4. Maize Origins, Domestication, and Selection --; 5. Contributions of Tripsacum to Maize Diversity --; 6. Evolution of Genetic Diversity in Phaseolus vulgaris L. --; 7. Cladistic Biogeography of Juglans ( Juglandaceae) Based on Chloroplast DNA Intergenic Spacer Sequences --; 8. Origin and Diversifi cation of Chayote --; 9. Using Modern Landraces of Wheat to Study the Origins of European Agriculture --; 10. Breadfruit Origins, Diversity, and Human-Facilitated Distribution --; 11. Genetic Relationship Between Dioscorea alata L. and D. nummularia Lam. as Revealed by AFLP Markers --; 12. Evolution, Domestication, and Agrobiodiversity in the Tropical Crop Cassava --; 13. Origins, Evolution, and Group Classifi cation of Cultivated Potatoes --; 14. Evolution and Conservation of Clonally Propagated Crops: Insights from AFLP Data and Folk Taxonomy of the Andean Tuber Oca ( Oxalis tuberosa ) --; 15. Crop Genetics on Modern Farms: Gene Flow Between Crop Populations --; Appendix I. Molecular Marker and Sequencing Methods and Related Terms --; Appendix II. Molecular Analyses --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231508094; 9783110442472
• DOI: 10.7312/motl13316
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Timothy Motley, Hugh Cross, Nyree Zerega.

Darwin's Harvest addresses concerns that we are losing the diversity of crop plants that provide food for most of the world. With contributions from evolutionary biologists, geneticists, agronomists, molecular biologists, and anthropologists, this collection discusses how economic development, loss of heirloom varieties and wild ancestors, and modern agricultural techniques have endangered the genetic diversity needed to keep agricultural crops vital and capable of adaptation.Drawing on the most up-to-date data, the contributors review the utilization of molecular techniques to understand crop evolution. They explore current research on various crop plants of both temperate and tropical origin, including maize, sunflower, avocado, sugarcane, and wheat. The chapters in Darwin's Harvest also provide solid background for understanding many recent discoveries concerning the origins of crops and the influence of human migration and farming practices on the genetics of our modern foods.