Darwin's Harvest: New Approaches to the Origins, Evolution, and Conservation of Crops

by TJMotley (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2006

  $89.58

  Addresses concerns that we are losing the diversity of crop plants that provide food for most of the world. This book discusses how economic development, loss of heirloom varieties and wild ancestors, and modern agricultural techniques have endangered the genetic diversity needed to keep agricultural crops vital and capable of adaptation.