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Darwin's Harvest: New Approaches to the Origins, Evolution, and Conservation of Crops Timothy Motley, Nyree Zerega, Hugh Cross, Nyree Zerega, Hugh Cross
Darwin's Harvest: New Approaches to the Origins, Evolution, and Conservation of Crops
Timothy Motley, Nyree Zerega, Hugh Cross, Nyree Zerega, Hugh Cross
Addresses concerns that we are losing the diversity of crop plants that provide food for most of the world. This book 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.
384 pages, Illustrations, charts, maps
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 4, 2006 |
| ISBN13 | 9780231133166 |
| Publishers | Columbia University Press |
| Pages | 384 |
| Dimensions | 236 × 161 × 28 mm · 718 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Cross, Hugh |
| Editor | Motley, Timothy |
| Editor | Zerega, Nyree (Director, Plant Biology and Conservation Master's Program, Northwestern University & The Chicago Botanic Garden) |