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New lives for ancient and extinct crops
- Title
- New lives for ancient and extinct crops / edited by Paul E. Minnis.
- Publication
- Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2014]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Minnis, Paul E.
- Description
- vi, 275 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- "New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crop profiles nine plant species that were important contributors to human diets and medicinal uses in antiquity: maygrass, chenopod, marsh elder, agave, little barley, chia, arrowroot, little millet, and bitter vetch. Each chapter is written by a well-known scholar, who illustrates the value of the ancient crop record to inform the present"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Maygrass (Phalaris caroliniana Walt.): its role and significance in native eastern North American agriculture / Gayle J. Fritz -- Goosefoot (Chenopodium) / Kristen J. Gremillion -- Sumpweed or marshelder (Iva annua) / Gail E. Wagner and Peter H. Carrington -- Agave (Agave spp.): a crop lost and found in the US-Mexico borderlands / Suzanne K. Fish and Paul R. Fish -- Little barley grass (Hordeum pusillum Nutt.): a prehispanic new world domesticate lost to history / Karen R. Adams -- Chia (Salvia hispanica L.) / Emily McClung de Tapia, Diana Martínez-Yrizar, and Carmen Cristina Adriano-Morán -- Arrowroot (Maranta arundinacea) and leren (Calathea latifolia); marantaceae / Deborah M. Pearsall -- Panicum sumatrense: the forgotten millet / Steven A. Weber and Arunima Kashyap -- Bitter vetch (Vicia ervilia): ancient medicinal crop and farmers' favorite for feeding livestock / Naomi F. MIller and Dirk Enneking.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-7050
- ISBN
- 9780816530625 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0816530629 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013039494
- 40023576937
- OCLC
- 863196132
- Title
- New lives for ancient and extinct crops / edited by Paul E. Minnis.
- Publisher
- Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Minnis, Paul E., editor.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40023576937
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-7050