Overview
- A personal account of a highly dedicated and very well known scientist
- The author’s writing style is excellent, with appealing personal anecdotes
- Of interest to oat scientists, plant breeders and those interested in oat diversity conservation and utilisation
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Agriculture (BRIEFSAGRO)
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Table of contents (3 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The book is based on the author's life time experience in exploring and researching the genus Avena. It describes some great events in oat research and minor stories along the way. It will be of interest and value to all those working with oats and to students and scientists of crop evolution, including those dealing with collecting and conserving wild genetic resources.
A first part deals with the morphology and taxonomy of the genus and a classification based on the biological species concept is presented. A further part is devoted to the author’s research accomplishments in this genus. It describes morphological characters distinguishing between diploids and tetraploids of series Eubarbatae, the genetic relationships between them, and the mode of origin of the tetraploid form. The section Denticulatae, to which the common oat belongs, is extensively treated. Further, oat domestication and the newly domesticated protein rich A. magna are described. A third part dealswith wild genetic resources of oat.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Studies in Oat Evolution
Book Subtitle: A Man's Life with Avena
Authors: Gideon Ladizinsky
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Agriculture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30547-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-30546-7Published: 07 June 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-30547-4Published: 31 May 2012
Series ISSN: 2211-808X
Series E-ISSN: 2211-8098
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 87
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Agriculture, Biodiversity