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Reference Materials (Winter 2008)

References: On 2-hr library reserve

Chrispeels and Sadava. 1994. Plants, genes, and agriculture. Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Boston, MA.

Harlan, Jack. 1975. Crops and Man. American Society of Agronomy and Crop Science Society of America. Madison, Wisconsin.

Holden, Peacock, and Williams. 1993. Genes, crops and the environment. Cambridge University Press.

Levetin and McMahon. 2003. Plants and Society. 3rd edition. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.

National Research Council. Lost crops of Africa: Volume I: Grains. National Academy Press.

Smartt and Simmonds. 1995. Evolution of Crop Plants. 2nd edition. Longman Scientific and Technical, Essex, England.

References: Recommended books and textbooks

Diamond, J. 1997. Guns, germs, and steel. Norton, NY.

Evans, L.T. 1993. Crop Evolution, Adaptation and Yield. Cambridge University Press.

Hancock, J. 1992. Plant evolution and the origin of crop species. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.

Khan, E.J. 1985. The staffs of life. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA

Ladizinsky, G. 1998. Plant evolution under domestication. Kluwer academic publishers, Boston, MA

Perkins., J.H. 1997. Geopolitics and the Green Revolution: Wheat, genes and the cold war. Oxford University Press, NY, NY.


Web sites references and resources

International Food Policy Research Institute
http://www.IFPRI.org

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
http://www.FAO.org

International agricultural research
http://www.cgiar.org/

Center for New Crops & Plant Products, Purdue University. 2003. Crop Index. http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/Indices/index_ab.html

Economic Research Service, USDA.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/

World Resources Institute.
http://www.wri.org/sustag/lba-home.html

IRRI. 2003. Rice Knowledge Bank. http://www.knowledgebank.irri.org

IRRI. 2003. Rice World. http://www.riceworld.org

Evolution of Crop Plants PLB143 (UC Davis)
http://agronomy.ucdavis.edu/gepts/pb143/pb143.htm

Teaching documents about evolution (links)
http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/palbot/teach/evolutionteach.html

WSU Agricultural Revolution
http://www.wsu.edu/gened/learn-modules/top_agrev/agrev-index.html

Crop Science 200; Ohio State Univ
http://hcs.osu.edu/hcs200/

Plants, genes, and agriculture; Utah State Univ.
http://wheat.usu.edu/courses/plsc2000/outline/2000outln.htm

Evolutionary biology
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/LFSC/life_sciences/.plant_biology/pb250/evol.html

Biodiversity and agriculture; World Resources Institute
http://www.wri.org/sustag/lba-toc.html

Adaptation and Selection; Evolutionary Biology, UCSC
http://www.biology.ucsc.edu/people/barrylab/public_html/classes/animal_behavior/SELECT.HTM

Principles of Plant Science; Oklahoma State Univ.
http://plnt1213.okstate.edu/

Plant structure, organs, and tissue
http://www.agen.ufl.edu/~chyn/age2062/lect/lect_15/lect_15.htm

General Plant Biology, Hort and Crop Science 300; Ohio State Univ.
http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/hcs300/

Glossary of Terms for botany and life science; Berkeley
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/glossary.html

Moncot vs dicot definitions: Berkeley
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss8/monocotdicot.html

Hort 233; Classification and horticultural crops
http://oregonstate.edu/dept/hort/233/index.htm

Plant breeding updates, with glossary and dictionary
http://www.desicca.de/plant_breeding/

History of food and agriculture
http://museum.agropolis.fr/english/pages/expos/fresque/la_fresque.htm

Biodiversity web - links and resources
http://www.biodiversity.nl/encyclopedia.htm

Plant biology and anthropology: UIUC course
http://www.life.uiuc.edu/plantbio/263/

Plant biology project
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/

Kimball, J.W. 2003. Kimball's Biology Pages.
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/

Millennium Seed Bank Project, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.
Useful links on genetic resources and genebanks.
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/msbp/inform/links.html#conserv

References: Papers posted on Web

Linking biodiversity and agriculture
World Resource Institute
http://www.wri.org/sustag/lba-toc.html

Evolution and the Nature of Science;
Darwin: On the origin of species
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/evolution98/evol6-k.html

Wallace: On tendency to depart from original
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/evolution98/evol6-j.html

Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution
Borlaug: Forgotten benefactor of humanity
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97jan/borlaug/borlaug.htm

Borlaug: Nobel prize acceptance speech
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97jan/borlaug/speech.htm

The Science of Biotechnology meets the politics of global regulation.
Issues in Science and Technology. Miller and Conko. 2000.
http://www.nap.edu/issues/17.1/miller.htm

Patenting Agriculture.

Issues in Science and Technology. Barton and Berger. 2000.
http://www.nap.edu/issues/17.4/p_barton.htm

Genes in Food! R.C. Lewontin. New York Review of Books
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14298

Technologies to maintain biological diversity. (Concepts and status of biodiversity). Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress. 1987.
http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~ota/ns20/topic_f.html

Price, S.C. 1999. Public and private plant breeding. Nature Biotechnology 17:938.
http://www.grain.org/publications/technology-example-wisonsin.cfm

Tripp, R. and D. Byerlee. 2000. Public plant breeding in an era of privatisation. ODI Natural Resource Perspectives. http://www.odi.org.uk/nrp/57.html

Salvador, Ricardo J. Maize. Adaptation of an article published in “Encyclopedia of Mexico”, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997. http://maize.agron.iastate.edu/maizearticle.html

National Research Council. 1989. Lost Crops of the Incas: Little Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation
http://books.nap.edu/books/030904264X/html/index.html

Transgenic crops: An introduction and resource guide.
http://www.colostate.edu/programs/lifesciences/TransgenicCrops/hotrice.html

Iowa State University. The maize page.
http://maize.agron.iastate.edu/

Glossary of terms