When de Candolle (1882) initiated the study of crop evolution, his major concern was to
identify the geographic origin, ie, the domestication center, of individual crops. In his opinion …

During the past decade, the tools of molecular biology have been applied to plant
systematics with remarkable success. New insights have been gained into such topics as …

This unique volume combines discussion of plant evolution with that of crop origins. The first
edition was published in 1992 by Prentice-Hall, and has now been fully revised to reflect …

This book reviews the origin and spread of cultivation in south-west Asia, Europe and north-
east Africa, from the very earliest beginnings. This new edition incorporates the most recent …

The last decade has seen a renewed attempt to clarify the mode of origin of the Old World
cultivated plants. Rather than reliance on surveys of varietal diversity in crops (ie, the …

We live at a time when recurrent world problems of famine and malnutrition have forced
plant breeders and agronomists to focus their attention more than ever before on breeding …

Effective conservation and use of plant genetic resources involve asking many questions
about the extent and distribution of genetic variation. Only when the appropriate markers …

In recent years research has been directed to looking for the origins of agriculture and to
finding the causes of the transition from hunting and gathering to food production and the …

The origin of agriculture is one of the defining events of human history. Some 11-10,000
years ago bands of hunter-gatherers started to abandon their high-mobility lifestyles in …

Progress in our understanding of how, where, and when agriculture originated depends as
much on the collation of evidence from diverse fields as on specialized investigations. A …