Divided into four sections covering anatomy in relation to crop management, anatomical descriptions of the major crop plants, anatomical changes in adaptation to environments and the link between anatomy and productivity, this book provides a comprehensive source of crop plant anatomy information. The crop areas covered include cereals, pulses and beans, oil crops and fibre crops. Suitable for students, researchers and professionals in the field, this book brings together economic plant anatomy and crop productivity for the first time. It is suitable for students and researchers of crop scienc.

The genetic variability that developed in plants during their evolution is the basic of their domestication and breeding into the crops grown today for food, fuel and other industrial uses. This third edition of Plant Evolution and the Origin of Crop Species brings the subject up-to-date, with more emphasis on crop origins. Beginning with a description of the processes of evolution in native and cultivated plants, the book reviews the origins of crop domestication and their subsequent development over time. All major crop species are discussed, including cereals, protein plants, starch crops, fruits and vegetables, from their origins to conservation of their genetic resources for future development.

A comprehensive guide to the botany of crop plants, designed for students and professionals in agriculture and related fields. The book covers a wide range of topics, from plant anatomy and physiology to genetics and breeding. It also includes detailed information on the major crop plants, including their history, cultivation, and uses. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Economic Botany of Crop Plants is an exhaustive treatment ofCrop Plants world wide giving details of Origin, DistributionBotany of the plant, Cytogenertics, Cultural methods of theproduct, Economic use of the product, Varieries of the crop aregiven in a systematic manner for each crop plant. Book is amplyillustrated. Exhaustive appendices for Questions. InstitutesJournals, Glossary related to economic botany are given at the endof the book. The earlier edition of the book (1989) has beenreviewed in International journals like:" Economic Botany (New York, USA)" Taxon. (California, USA)" New Zeland Journal of BotanyIn a praiseworthy way, and also by eminent Professors like:" R.E. Schultres (Harvard University, USA) " Vame Grant (Texas University, USA)" B.B. Simpson (Texas University, USA)The book is greatly useful to students of Botany, Agriculture, Pharmacy, Medicine,Plants and Human Welfare, Biotechnology and Environmental Sciences and Forestrydoing B.Sc. and M.Sc. courses of all Universities.

Excerpt from The Botany of Crop Plants: A Text and Reference Book In the preparation of the book, the writer has had in mind non-agricultural as well as agricultural schools, for it cannot escape notice that there is a growing tendency, wherever botany is taught, to tie it up more closely with economic interests and to draw more and more upon economic plants in citing examples and in choosing objects of study in the laboratory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.