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Category : Apricot
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Proceedings of the XIIth ISHS Symposium on Apricot Culture and Decline
Author:
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Category : Apricot
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Publisher:
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Category : Apricot
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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The Ongoing Columbian Exchange
Author: Christopher Cumo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
This unique encyclopedia enables students to understand the myriad ways that the Columbian Exchange shaped the modern world, covering every major living organism from pathogens and plants to insects and mammals. Most people have only the vaguest notion of how profoundly the world was changed by Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas. Indeed, some of what is commonly regarded as "traditional" Native American life and culture—living in teepees and hunting buffalo from horseback, for example—came from the arrival of Europeans. This encyclopedia helps students acquire fundamental information about the Columbian Exchange through approximately 100 alphabetically arranged entries on animals, plants, diseases, and items that were exchanged, accompanied by sidebars throughout that provide interesting discussions of key people, companies, and other related topics. The work begins with an introductory essay that overviews the Columbian exchange and not only addresses its biological and cultural components but also treats it as a political and economic event. The alphabetically organized entries cover topics ranging from the African slave trade, almonds, and alpacas to watermelon, whooping cough, and yellow fever. The encyclopedia also offers a chronology of the major events of the Columbian Exchange as well as 15 transcribed primary source documents that enable students to "look into history directly," including passages about the exchange that focus on the Irish Potato Famine, the slave trade, and the influenza pandemic of 1918–1919.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
This unique encyclopedia enables students to understand the myriad ways that the Columbian Exchange shaped the modern world, covering every major living organism from pathogens and plants to insects and mammals. Most people have only the vaguest notion of how profoundly the world was changed by Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas. Indeed, some of what is commonly regarded as "traditional" Native American life and culture—living in teepees and hunting buffalo from horseback, for example—came from the arrival of Europeans. This encyclopedia helps students acquire fundamental information about the Columbian Exchange through approximately 100 alphabetically arranged entries on animals, plants, diseases, and items that were exchanged, accompanied by sidebars throughout that provide interesting discussions of key people, companies, and other related topics. The work begins with an introductory essay that overviews the Columbian exchange and not only addresses its biological and cultural components but also treats it as a political and economic event. The alphabetically organized entries cover topics ranging from the African slave trade, almonds, and alpacas to watermelon, whooping cough, and yellow fever. The encyclopedia also offers a chronology of the major events of the Columbian Exchange as well as 15 transcribed primary source documents that enable students to "look into history directly," including passages about the exchange that focus on the Irish Potato Famine, the slave trade, and the influenza pandemic of 1918–1919.
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Plants [3 volumes]
Author: Christopher Cumo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598847759
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1307
Book Description
Readers of this expansive, three-volume encyclopedia will gain scientific, sociological, and demographic insight into the complex relationship between plants and humans across history. Comprising three volumes and approximately half a million words, this work is likely the most comprehensive reference of its kind, providing detailed information not only about specific plants and food crops such as barley, corn, potato, rice, and wheat, but also interdisciplinary content that draws on the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The entries underscore the fascination that humans have long held for plants, identifies the myriad reasons why much of life on earth would be impossible without plants, and points out the intertwined relationship of plants and humans—and how delicate this balance can be. While the majority of the content is dedicated to the food plants that are essential to human existence, material on ornamentals, fiber crops, pharmacological plants, and carnivorous plants is also included.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598847759
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1307
Book Description
Readers of this expansive, three-volume encyclopedia will gain scientific, sociological, and demographic insight into the complex relationship between plants and humans across history. Comprising three volumes and approximately half a million words, this work is likely the most comprehensive reference of its kind, providing detailed information not only about specific plants and food crops such as barley, corn, potato, rice, and wheat, but also interdisciplinary content that draws on the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The entries underscore the fascination that humans have long held for plants, identifies the myriad reasons why much of life on earth would be impossible without plants, and points out the intertwined relationship of plants and humans—and how delicate this balance can be. While the majority of the content is dedicated to the food plants that are essential to human existence, material on ornamentals, fiber crops, pharmacological plants, and carnivorous plants is also included.
The Almonds and Related Species
Author: Alireza Rahemi
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031589386
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Zusammenfassung: Almond and peach species have global importance as food crops as well as use in landscaping including restoration and reforestation. Because currently available breeding germplasm has a very narrow genetic base, genetic improvement programs are turning to wild germplasm as sources of improved quality, productivity and resistance traits. This germplasm is also enabling the dramatic modification of traditional cropping systems as with the transfer of self-fruitfulness from related wild almond and peach species to normally self-sterile cultivated almond. While presence of an extensive wild almond and related germplasm has been documented in the literature over the past century, most information remains dispersed and often not generally accessible owing to its publication in treatises and journals of limited distribution. This monograph brings together a comprehensive characterization of almond and its related species including the cultivated and wild peaches. Because it represents the only comprehensive source of information on almond, peach and their wild relatives, it represents a basic reference text of interest to researchers in both the basic and applied plant and ecological sciences
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031589386
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Zusammenfassung: Almond and peach species have global importance as food crops as well as use in landscaping including restoration and reforestation. Because currently available breeding germplasm has a very narrow genetic base, genetic improvement programs are turning to wild germplasm as sources of improved quality, productivity and resistance traits. This germplasm is also enabling the dramatic modification of traditional cropping systems as with the transfer of self-fruitfulness from related wild almond and peach species to normally self-sterile cultivated almond. While presence of an extensive wild almond and related germplasm has been documented in the literature over the past century, most information remains dispersed and often not generally accessible owing to its publication in treatises and journals of limited distribution. This monograph brings together a comprehensive characterization of almond and its related species including the cultivated and wild peaches. Because it represents the only comprehensive source of information on almond, peach and their wild relatives, it represents a basic reference text of interest to researchers in both the basic and applied plant and ecological sciences
Proceedings of the XIth Eucarpia Symposium on Fruit Breeding and Genetics
Author: François Laurens
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Category : Fruit
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Publisher:
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Category : Fruit
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Index of Conference Proceedings Received
Author: British Library. Lending Division
Publisher:
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Category : Conference proceedings
Languages : en
Pages : 850
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Publisher:
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Category : Conference proceedings
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
International Books in Print
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
Directory of Published Proceedings
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Proceedings of the XIIth Eucarpia Symposium on Fruit Breeding and Genetics
Author: Rafael Socias i Company
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789066052901
Category : Fruit
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789066052901
Category : Fruit
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
International Symposium on Apricot Culture
Author: Irene Karayiannis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789066058910
Category : Apricot
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789066058910
Category : Apricot
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description