New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops /

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"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 s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Minnis, Paul E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson, Arizona : The University of Arizona Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Crops, Agricultural > history.
Plants, Medicinal.
Edible Grain > history.
Archäobotanik
Ausgestorbene Pflanzen
Kultivierung
Nutzpflanzen
Plants, Cultivated.
Medicinal plants.
Cereals as food.
Crops.
Indians of North America > Food.
Paleoethnobotany.
Plant remains (Archaeology)
Crops > History.
Plants, Cultivated > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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