In this major 1993 work, Lloyd Evans provides an integrated view of the domestication, adaptation and improvement of crop plants, bringing together genetic diversity, plant breeding, physiology and aspects of agronomy. Considerations of yield and maximum yield provide continuity throughout the book. Food, feed, fibre, fuel and pharmaceutical crops are all discussed. Cereals, grain legumes and root crops, both temperate and tropical, provide many of the examples, but pasture plants, oilseeds, leafy crops, fruit trees and others are also considered. After the introductory chapter, the increasing significance of crop yields to the world's food supply is highlighted. The next three chapters consider changes to crop plants over the last ten thousand years, including domestication, adaptation and improvement. Aimed at research workers and advanced students in crop physiology and ecology, agronomy and plant breeding, this book also reaches conclusions of relevance to those concerned with developmental policy, agricultural research and management, environmental quality, resource depletion and human history.

A major 1993 review of the domestication, adaptation and improvement of crop plants.
Reviews
'Professor Evans has presented in this extraordinaty book an excellent synthesis of the subject ... The availability of a paperback edition within three years of its first publication, should ensure its use by ecologists, plant physiologists, and agricultural scientists in all developing countries.' J. P. S. Chauhan, International Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences
'... impressive volume.' Jim Dunwell, Chemistry and Industry



Book Information
ISBN 9780521295581
Author Lloyd T. Evans
Format Paperback
Page Count 514
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 848g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm * 25mm