02401nam a2200265 a 4500 AR-ReUNN 20260702154223.0 260630s2007 us |||||||||||||||||eng 978-0-19-920714-5 eng Murphy, Denis J. 157840 People, plants, and genes : the story of crops and humanity New York Oxford University Press 2007 401 páginas 25 x 19 cm Contenido: List of figures, list of tables, list of text boxes, preface, nomenclature and terminology Part I . People and plants: one hundred millennia of coevolution 1. Early human societies and their plants 2. Plant management and agriculture 3. How some people became farmers Part II. Crop and genetics: 90 million years of plant evolution 4. Plant genomes 5. Fluid genomes, uncertain species, and the genetics of crop domestucation 6. The domestication of cereal crops 7. The domestication of non-cereal crops Part III. Peopla and plants in prehistoric times: ten millennia of climatic and social change 8. People and the emergence of crops 9. Agriculture: a mixed blessing 10. Evolution of agrourban cultures: I the near east 11. Evolution of agrourban cultures: II South and east Asia 12. Evolution of agrourban cultures: III Africa, Europe, and the Americas Part IV. People and plants in historic times: globalization of agriculture nad the rise of science 13. Crop management in the classical and medieval periods 14. Agricultural improvement and the rise of crop breeding 15. Imperial botany and the early scientific breeders 16. Agricultural improvement in modern times 17. The future of agriculture and humanity Notes, Bibliography, Index This book provides a comprehensive overview of the complex story of human-plant interactions, from the hunter-gatherers of the Paleolithic Era, through to the 21st century and the molecular genetic manipulation of crops. It links the latest advances in molecular genetics with the science and history of plant domestication, the evolution of plant breeding, and the implications of this new knowledge for both the agriculture of today and the future. Agricultura 5304 Historia 24 Cultivos 4356 Genomas 121308 Biotecnología 8663 LIB (IBONE)48655 242468 0 0 0 1 IBONE IBONE GEN 2008-06-23 0 631(091) MUR ej.1 62.05-000104 LIB 242468 242468 AR-ReUNN spa AR-ReUNN aacr2 0 0 0 1 IBONE IBONE GEN 2008-06-23 0 631(091) MUR ej.1 62.05-000104 LIB