Biodiversity in agriculture
Subtitle: domestication, evolution, and sustainability
By: edited by Paul Gepts ... [et al.].
Contributors: Gepts, Paul L.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521764599; 9780521170871
Subjects: Congresses; Agrobiodiversity
Notes: "The presentations of the second edition of the Harlan Symposium, held September 14-18, 2008, on the campus of the University of California, Davis ..."--Foreword.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The local origins of domestication / Jared Diamond; title: Early steps in agricultural domestication / Robert Bettinger; title: Evolution of agro-ecosystems: biodiversity, origins and differential development / David R. Harris; title: From foraging to farming in western and eastern Asia 151 / Ofer Bar-Yosef; title: Predomestic cultivation during the late Pleistocene and Early Holocene in the northern Levant / George Willcox; title: New archaeobotanical information on plant domestication from macro-remains: tracking the evolution of domestication syndrome traits / Dorian Q. Fuller; title: New archaeobotanical information on early cultivation and plant domestication involving microplant remains / Dolores R. Piperno; title: How and why did agriculture spread? / Peter Bellwood; title: California Indian proto-agriculture: its characterization and legacy / Kat Anderson and Eric Wohlgemuth; title: Domestication of animals and impacts on humans / Thomas Famula; title: Pathways to animal domestication / Melinda A. Zeder; title: Genetics of animal domestication / Leif Andersson; title: Genome-wide approaches for the study of dog domestication / Bridgett M. vonHoldt, Melissa M. Gray, and Robert K. Wayne; title: Malaria and rickets represent selective forces for the convergent evolution of adult lactase persistence / Loren Cordain, Mathew S. Hickley, and Kami Kim; title: Issues in plant domestication / Paul Gepts; title: The dynamics of rice domestication: a balance between gene flow and genetic isolation / Susan R. McCouch ... [et al.]; title: Domestication of lima beans: a new look at an old problem / M.I. Chacon S. ... [et al.]; title: Genetic characterization of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) and yam (Dioscorea trifida L.) landraces in swidden agriculture systems in Brazil / Elizabeth A. Veasey ... [et al.]; title: Pigeonpea: from an orphan to a leader in food legumes / C.L. Laxmipathi Gowda ... [et al.]; title: Traditional management of biodiversity / Stephen Brush; title: Ecological approaches to crop domestication / D.B. McKey ... [et al.]; title: Agrobiodiversity shifts on three continents since Vavilov and Harlan: assessing causes, processes and implications for food security / Gary Paul Nabhan ... [et al.]; title: Indigenous peoples conserving, managing, and creating biodiversity / Jan Salick; title: Land architecture in the Maya lowlands: implications for sustainability / B.L. Turner II and Deborah Lawrence; title: Agrobiodiversity and water resources in agricultural landscape evolution (Andean Valley irrigation, Bolivia, 1986 to 2008) / Karl S. Zimmerer; title: Uses of biodiversity and new and future domestications / Patrick McGuire and Calvin Qualset; title: Participatory domestication of indigenous fruit and nut trees: new crops for sustainable agriculture in developing countries / Roger R.B. Leakey; title: The introduction and dispersal of Vitis vinifera into California: a case study of the interaction of man, plants, economics, and environment / James Lapsley; title: Genetic resources of yeast and other micro-organisms / Charles W. Bamforth; title: Biodiversity of native bees and crop pollination with emphasis on California / Robbin W. Thorp; title: Aquaculture, the next wave of domestication / Dennis Hedgecock; title: Genetic sustainability and biodiversity: challenges to the California dairy industry / Juan F. Medrano.