John Warren

Gebundenes Buch

The Nature of Crops

How We Came to Eat the Plants We Do

Beschreibung

Our ancestors chose to cultivate some plant species and not others. Through years of association with humans, these wild plants have been changed so that the crops we eat often hardly resemble their wild progenitors. Arranged into broad themes depicting the history of domestication, this book documents the history and biology of over 40 crops.

Autor

John Warren is Director of Education at Aberystwyth University. He has an academic interest in the sex-life of plants and a recreational interest in all things edible. Formally a cocoa breeder, he worked on the world chocolate gene bank at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad. Whilst there he published scientific papers on the unusual sexual practices of Caribbean cocoa and also pried into the private lives of several less familiar tropical crops including the star-fruit and tree cucumber. Prior to working in the Caribbean he spent two years literally sowing wild oats at the University of Liverpool. He has made regular appearances on BBC Scotland's Beechgrove Potting Shed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CABI Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 147mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781780645087
• ISBN-10: 1780645082
• Artikelnr.: 42285213