Open AccessBook
Crops and man
About:
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
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Position Statement on Crop Adaptation to Climate Change.
Kenneth J. Boote,Amir M. H. Ibrahim,Renee Lafitte,Rebecca L. McCulley,Carlos D. Messina,Seth C. Murray,James E. Specht,Sterling Taylor,Mark E. Westgate,Karl Glasener,Caron Gala Bijl,James H. Giese +11 more
Journal ArticleDOI
A Suitable Site for in situ (On-farm) Management of Plant Diversity in Traditional Agroecosystems of Western Himalaya in Uttaranchal State: A Case Study
Ishwari Singh Bisht,K. S. Rao,D. C. Bhandari,Sunil Nautiyal,R. K. Maikhuri,Baldev S. Dhillon +5 more
TL;DR: Complementarity of in situ (on-farm) conservation with ex situ conservation together with crop improvement in such marginal areas are suggested.
Journal ArticleDOI
T-type chloroplast DNA inSolarium tuberosum L. ssp.tuberosum was conferred from some populations ofS. tarijense Hawkes
TL;DR: It is concluded that some populations of S. tarijense acted as the maternal ancestor of potato, and all the T-type accessions of cultivated potatoes shared the same chloroplast DNA haplotype only with some accession ofS.Tarijense Hawkes and its derived hybrids.
Ethnobotany of turmeric (Curcuma longa L.)
TL;DR: In this article, an attempt has been made to assemble information and elucidate the historical, legendary, religious, literary and mythological aspects substantiating logically the probable origin of the crop in India.
Journal ArticleDOI
Round and large: morphological and genetic consequences of artificial selection on the gourd tree Crescentia cujete by the Maya of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
TL;DR: The close relationship between Maya nomenclature and artificial selection has maintained the morphological and haplotypic identity of domesticated Crescentia despite gene flow from wild populations.