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Plant Breeding Reviews
J. Janick
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Description for Plant Breeding Reviews
Paperback. Num Pages: 412 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GB; PD; WM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 635.
Plant breeding, the domestication and systematic improvement of crop species, is the basis of past and present agriculture. Our so called primitive progenitors selected practically all our present-day crop plants, and the improvement wrought through millenia of selection has so changed some of them that in many cases their links to the past have been obliterated. There is no doubt that this ranks among the greatest of human achievements. Although plant breeding has been a continuous empirical activity for as long as humans have forsaken the vagaries and thrill of hunting for the security and toil of agriculture, genetic crop ... Read more
Plant breeding, the domestication and systematic improvement of crop species, is the basis of past and present agriculture. Our so called primitive progenitors selected practically all our present-day crop plants, and the improvement wrought through millenia of selection has so changed some of them that in many cases their links to the past have been obliterated. There is no doubt that this ranks among the greatest of human achievements. Although plant breeding has been a continuous empirical activity for as long as humans have forsaken the vagaries and thrill of hunting for the security and toil of agriculture, genetic crop ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
412
Condition
New
Number of Pages
398
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781468488982
SKU
V9781468488982
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99-15
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