Plants, Man and Life |
Contents
Man and His Transported Landscapes | 3 |
The History of WeedsA Detective Story | 16 |
The Greater Paradox | 31 |
The Clue from the Root Tips | 49 |
The Clue from Diversity or Science and | 75 |
How to Measure an Avocado | 89 |
Budgets vs Scholarship | 107 |
Uneconomic Botany | 124 |
Dump Heaps and the Origin of Agriculture | 136 |
and Their Probable Origins | 152 |
SunflowersThe One Native American Crop | 186 |
Adventures in Chaos | 207 |
Common terms and phrases
Aegilops agriculture alba amaranths American ancient anthropologists apparently apples Asia avocados beans bluegrass botanical botanist bread wheats breeders cells cereal chromosomes collections color common cotton crop plants crosses cultivated plants cultivated sorts cytological diagram diploid domesticated dump heaps early ears einkorn Europe European evidence facts field flora flowers fruits garden genus grain grain amaranths grasses green growing grown Guatemala Heiser Helianthus annuus herbarium herbarium specimens hexaploid Hopi hybrids important India kernels kind leaf leaves maíz dulce maize method Mexican Mexico modern mongrel native Neolithic Old World origin palms petiolaris pollen polyploid pre-Columbian primitive Primula probably problem produced radish rubra Schiemann scientific scientists seeds South America species spiderworts stem story sugar sunflowers sweet corn taxonomic taxonomists technical tetraploid tion tomato Tradescantia virginiana trees tropics true-breeding variable variation varieties various Vavilov vegetable weeds weedy western Mexico whole wild wild-growing woodland