Origin and geography of cultivated plants / N.I. Vavilov ; departmental editor, V.F. Dorofeyev ; translated by Doris Löve.

xxxi, 498 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

0521404274
9780521404273 hardback
9780521111591

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Contents : On the Eastern centers of origin of cultivated plants; On the origin of cultivated plants; Centers of origin of cultivated plants; Geographical regularities in relation to the distribution of the genes of cultivated plants; Universal centers of a wealth of types (genes) of cultivated plants; The problem concerning the origin of cultivated plants as presently understood; The problem concerning the origin of agriculture in the light of recent research; The role of Central Asia in the origin of cultivated plants; Mexico and Central America as a basic center of origin of cultivated plants in the New World; The plant resources of the world and the work performed by the All-Union Institute of Plant Industry toward their utilization; The world centers of origin of agriculture and the soil map of the world; Soviet science and the study of the problem concerning the origin of domesticated animals; Problems concerning new crops; The present state of worlwide agriculture and agricultural sciences; The plant resources of the world and their utilization for socialistic agriculture; Plant resources of the world and the mastering thereof; The phyto-geographical basis for plant breeding; Asia : the source of species; Plant resources of the world and their utilization for plant breeding; The important agricultural crops of pre-Columbian America and their mutual relationship; Reply to the article by G.N. Shlykov : Formal genetics and consistent Darwinism; The theory of the origin of cultivated plants after Darwin; Introduction of plants during the Soviet era and its results; New data on the cultivated flora of China and its importance for Soviet plant breeding; A letter to S.M. Bukasov; Index of Latin plant names; List of vernacular plant names; Index of animals names; Index of centers of origin;.
L'ouvrage porte la mention : "The Academy of sciences of the USSR, the Section of chemical, technical and biological sciences.".
Translated from the Russian. - This translation originally published: 1992.
In testa al front.: The Academy of sciences of the U.S.S.R., the Section of chemical, technical and biological sciences.
Øverst på titelsiden: Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., the Section of Chemical, Technical and Biological Sciences.
In testa al front. : The Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., theSection of Chemical, Technical and Biological Sciences.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

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