PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES IN ETHIOPIA (Jack Hawkes' copy]
by Engles, J. M. M.; Hawkes, J. G.; Melaku Worede (editors)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0521384567
- ISBN 13
- 9780521384568
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About This Item
Cambridge University Press, 1991. Octavo, pp xvi, 383, a tiny mark to the fore-edge, otherwise a very good copy indeed, pictorial laminated boards. From the library of Professor Jack Hawkes, with his signature on the front endpaper. [One of the world centres of crop evolution and origin, Ethiopia has long been recognized as an important area of diversity for several major and various minor crops. Based on an international conference held in Addis Ababa, this book describes how this genetic diversity is of vital importance in breeding varieties of crops with desirable characteristics such as increased resistance to pests and diseases and greater adaptation to heat and drought. The three main sections in the book consider the Ethiopian centre of diversity, germplasm collection and conservation in Ethiopia and the evaluation and utilization of Ethiopian genetic resources. A broad range of food and feed crops and plants of medicinal and industrial importance are discussed, both at a national and international level. A brief account of those conservation strategies and genebank problems unique to Ethiopia is also given. The importance of Ethiopia's plant genetic resources to world agriculture has been demonstrated on more than one occasion.]. First Edition. Boards. Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014209
- Title
- PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES IN ETHIOPIA (Jack Hawkes' copy]
- Author
- Engles, J. M. M.; Hawkes, J. G.; Melaku Worede (editors)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0521384567
- ISBN 13
- 9780521384568
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- ethiopian.genetic. engineering.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Agriculture; Economic Botany; Ethnology;
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