Crop Evolution, Adaptation and Yield

by Lloyd T. Evans

Book Overview

In this major 1993 work, Lloyd Evans provides an integrated view of the domestication, adaptation and improvement of crop plants, bringing together genetic diversity, plant breeding, physiology and aspects of agronomy. Considerations of yield and maximum yield provide continuity throughout the book. Food, feed, fibre, fuel and pharmaceutical crops are all discussed. Cereals, grain legumes and root crops, both temperate and tropical, provide many of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521295580
• ISBN13: 9780521295581
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 514 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"