Author: Dong Yuchen Zheng Diansheng
Language: Chinese
ISBN/ISSN: ISBN 71094108767
Published on: 2006-01
Hardcover
Abstract
This book is a volume of series on “Crops and Their Wild Relatives “.It comprises two parts: Overview and Elaboration . The Overview part presents the information on categories and botanical ,cytological and agronomic classification, and theories of origin and evolution of crops . The Elaboration part includes 14 chapters. Chapter 1 narrates categories, diversity and significance of food crops and their general status on production in the world and China. Form Chapter 2 to Chapter 14,it discuss separately the general status on production, the major characteristics on botany and biology, the origin, evolution, dissemination and classification, as well as cultivar evolution and propagation technologies of rice, wheat, maize, foxtail millet, broomcorn millet, sorghum, food legumes, sweet potato, potato, cassava and buck wheat. In each chapter, it also intro duce crops relatives and their characteristics and relations with crops, and their utilization in crop breeding and production.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction-The Origin, Classification and Diversity of Crops
Chapter 1 An outline to The food Crops
Chapter 2 Rice
Chapter 3 Wheat
Chapter 4 Barley
Chapter 5 Oat
Chapter 6 Maize
Chapter 7 Foxtail millet
Chapter 8Broomcorn millet
Chapter 9 Sorghum
Chapter 10 Food legumes
Chapter 11 Sweet Potato
Chapter 12 Potato
Chapter 13 Cassava
Chapter 14 Buckwheat
Language: Chinese
ISBN/ISSN: ISBN 71094108767
Published on: 2006-01
Hardcover
Abstract
This book is a volume of series on “Crops and Their Wild Relatives “.It comprises two parts: Overview and Elaboration . The Overview part presents the information on categories and botanical ,cytological and agronomic classification, and theories of origin and evolution of crops . The Elaboration part includes 14 chapters. Chapter 1 narrates categories, diversity and significance of food crops and their general status on production in the world and China. Form Chapter 2 to Chapter 14,it discuss separately the general status on production, the major characteristics on botany and biology, the origin, evolution, dissemination and classification, as well as cultivar evolution and propagation technologies of rice, wheat, maize, foxtail millet, broomcorn millet, sorghum, food legumes, sweet potato, potato, cassava and buck wheat. In each chapter, it also intro duce crops relatives and their characteristics and relations with crops, and their utilization in crop breeding and production.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction-The Origin, Classification and Diversity of Crops
Chapter 1 An outline to The food Crops
Chapter 2 Rice
Chapter 3 Wheat
Chapter 4 Barley
Chapter 5 Oat
Chapter 6 Maize
Chapter 7 Foxtail millet
Chapter 8Broomcorn millet
Chapter 9 Sorghum
Chapter 10 Food legumes
Chapter 11 Sweet Potato
Chapter 12 Potato
Chapter 13 Cassava
Chapter 14 Buckwheat
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