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The article was published on 1975-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1120 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Domestication & Germplasm.read more
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Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] landrace variation and classification in North Shewa and South Welo, Ethiopia
TL;DR: The number of accessions of the five most common landraces named by the farmers formed dissimilar groups, suggesting that farmers’ naming of these Sorghum landrace are consistent.
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Vorarbeiten zur monographischen Darstellung von Wildpflanzensortimenten:Aegilops L.
TL;DR: The Genbank in Gatersleben verfugt uber eine umfangreiche Wildroggen-Kollektion, die fur die Aufgaben der Zuchtungsforschung und Zuctung zur Verfugung steht as discussed by the authors.
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Ecological Change and the Politics of African Land Use
TL;DR: This paper argued that the demographic and ecological processes subsumed under the category "natural economy" are more plausibly viewed as products of capitalism and colonialism, and pointed out that the kind of evidence on which Meillassoux's reconstruction is based is a complex ideological byproduct of factional politics in an economy dominated by merchant capital.
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Water, soil and seasonality in early cereal cultivation
TL;DR: A review of agricultural development in the sub-tropical and temperate parts of the western old world can be found in this paper, where the authors suggest that the small scale and restricted extent of early cultivation systems gave them a unique character which has not been generally appreciated.
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Selection for perceptual distinctiveness: evidence from Aguaruna cultivars of Manihot esculenta
TL;DR: Evidence that cultivars of manioc (Manihot esculenta) have been selected for combinations of characters that allow them to be perceptually distinguished is presented and Anthropological evidence is presented to demonstrate that Aguaruna interact with the plants as predicted by the model.