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This unique volume combines discussion of plant evolution with that of crop origins. The first edition was published in 1992 by Prentice-Hall, and has now been fully revised to reflect recent advances. This updated version also encompasses greater integration of the information on evolution and crop origins. A description of the process of evolution in native and cultivated populations of plants is incorporated, plus a review of when and where major crops were domesticated and discussions of the subsequent development of crops over time.

Table of Contents:
Part I: Evolutionary Processes 1: Chromosome structure and genetic variability 2: Gene and chromosomal structure 3: Types of mutation 4: Measurement of variability 5: Construction of genetic maps and genome evolution 6: Assortment of Genetic Variability 7: Random mating and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium 8: Migration 9: Selection 10: Genetic Drift 11: Evolution in organelles 12: Interaction between forces 13: The Multifactoral Genome 14: Intra-genomic interactions 15: Coadaptation 16: Canalization 17: Paradox of coadaptation 18: Polyploidy and gene duplication 19: Factors enhancing the establishment of polyploids 20: Evolutionary advantages of polyploidy 21: Genetic differentiation in polyploids 22: Chromosomal repatterning 23: Genome amplification and chance 24: Speciation 25: What is a species? 26: Reproductive isolating barriers 27: Modes of speciation 28: Genetic differentiation during speciation 29: Hybridization and introgression 30: Hybridization and extinction 31: Crop-weed hybridizations 32: Risk of transgene escape into the environment Part II: Agricultural Origins and Crop Evolution 33: The Origins of Agriculture 34: Rise of our food crops 35: Emergence of Homo 36: Evolution of Homo 37: Appearance of modern humans 38: Spread of H. sapiens 39: Agricultural origins 40: Early crop dispersals 41: Transcontinental crop distributions 42: The Dynamics of Plant Domestication 43: Evolution of farming 44: Early stages of plant domestication 45: Origins of crops 46: Characteristics of early domesticants 47: Changes during the domestication process 48: Genetic regulation of domestication syndromes 49: Evolution of weeds 50: Genetic diversity and domestication 51: Domestication and native diversity patterns 52: Cereal grains a: Barley b: Maize c: Millets d: Oat e: Rice f: Rye g: Sorghum h: Wheat 53: Protein Plants a: Chickpea b: Cowpea c: Pea d: Lentil e: Phaseolis beans f: Faba beans g: Soybean 53: Starchy Staples and Sugars a: Banana b: Cassava c: Potato d: Sugarcane e: Sugar beet f: Sweet potato g: Taro h: Yam 54: Fruits, Vegetables, Oils and Fibers a: Apples b: Citrus c: Grape d: Peach e: Strawberry f: Cole crops g: Squash and gourds h: Chili peppers i: Tomato j: Cotton k: Groundnut l: Sunflower 55: Postscript: Germ-plasm Resources 56: Ex situ conservation 57: In situ conservation 58: References 59: Index

About the Author :
James F. Hancock is a University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University. He received his BS in Biology from Baldwin Wallace College (Berea, Ohio), a MS in Botany at Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) and a Ph.D. in Genetics at the University of California, Davis. After a short stint in the Biology Department at the University of South Carolina, he moved to Michigan State University (MSU) as an assistant professor of Horticulture, where he was for over thirty years, being promoted to Professor in 1986. He was the Director of the Plant Breeding and Genetics Program at MSU from 2004 to 2009. The emphasis of his research has been on the breeding and genetics of blueberries and strawberries, and he has published prodigiously in these areas. His previous books have been "The Strawberry", "The Blueberry" (with Jorge Retamales), "Plantation Crops: Power and Plunder, Evolution and Exploitation" and "Plant Evolution and the Origin of Crop Species". He has also edited "Temperate Fruit Crop Genetics: Germplasm to Genomics", and "Environmental Biosafety" (with Rebecca Grumet, Karim Maredia and Cholani Weebadde). He is fellow of the American Society for Horticultural Science, Wilder medal recipient of the American Pomological Society, a former Fulbright Fellow to Chile and received the Technology Transfer Achievement Award from the Innovation Center of MSU for his blueberry cultivar releases.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780851998749
  • Publisher: CABI Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: CABI Publishing
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0851998747
  • Publisher Date: 03 Nov 2003
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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