This book is concerned with questions on the times when and the places where a range of
plants were domesticated in the classical Old World (ie south-west Asia, Europe and Africa …

The origin of agriculture is one of the defining events of human history. Some 11-10,000
years ago bands of hunter-gatherers started to abandon their high-mobility lifestyles in …

This unique volume combines discussion of plant evolution with that of crop origins. The first
edition was published in 1992 by Prentice-Hall, and has now been fully revised to reflect …

This book provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of human-plant interactions
and their social consequences from the hunter-gatherers of the Palaeolithic Era to the 21st …

Archaeobotanical studies constantly encounter the carbonized grains of grasses, cultivated
and wild, but the vast diversity of wild species that are potentially present has made …

Secale L. is a small but important genus that includes cultivated rye. Although genetic
diversity of cultivated rye is high, patterns of genetic diversity in the whole genus, and …

The genetic diversity and phylogenetic relationships in the genus Secale L.(rye) was
evaluated using 24 Secale cereale microsatellite (SCM) markers. The average …

Sequence analysis of the internal transcribed spacer of the 18S-5.8 S-26S rDNA (ITS-1)
region was performed in order to analyse the phylogenetic relationships of eleven taxa of …

Feral rye, commonly referred to as cereal, winter, common, or volunteer rye, is an important
weed in winter wheat production in many parts of the United States and the world. Feral rye …

Rye (Secale L.) is a member of family Poaceae (tribe Triticeae) and includes perennial or
annual, self-incompatible or self-compatible, and cultivated, weedy or wild species …