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The Nature of Crops. How We Came to Eat the Plants We Do.
John Warren
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Description for The Nature of Crops. How We Came to Eat the Plants We Do.
Our ancestors chose to cultivate some plant species and not others. Through years of association with humans, these wild plants have been changed so that the crops we eat often hardly resemble their wild progenitors. Arranged into broad themes depicting the history of domestication, this book documents the history and biology of over 40 crops. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: TVK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
Have you ever wondered why we eat wheat, rice, potatoes and cassava? Why we routinely domesticate foodstuffs with the power to kill us, or why we chose almonds over acorns? Answering all these questions and more in a readable and friendly style, this book takes you on a journey through our history with crop plants. Arranged into recurrent themes in plant domestication, this book documents the history and biology of over 50 crops, including cereals, spices, legumes, fruits and cash crops such as chocolate, tobacco and rubber. In The Nature of Crops John Warren reveals: -Why the Egyptians worshipped onions; ... Read more
Have you ever wondered why we eat wheat, rice, potatoes and cassava? Why we routinely domesticate foodstuffs with the power to kill us, or why we chose almonds over acorns? Answering all these questions and more in a readable and friendly style, this book takes you on a journey through our history with crop plants. Arranged into recurrent themes in plant domestication, this book documents the history and biology of over 50 crops, including cereals, spices, legumes, fruits and cash crops such as chocolate, tobacco and rubber. In The Nature of Crops John Warren reveals: -Why the Egyptians worshipped onions; ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
CABI Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Wallingford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780645087
SKU
V9781780645087
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-12
About John Warren
John Warren is Director of Education at Aberystwyth University. He has an academic interest in the sex-life of plants and a recreational interest in all things edible. Formally a cocoa breeder, he worked on the world chocolate gene bank at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad. Whilst there he published scientific papers on the unusual sexual practices of ... Read more
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