Wheat
Subtitle: Ecology and Physiology of Yield Determination
Contributors: Emilio H. Satorre (Editor); Gustavo A. Slafer (Editor)
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: September 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 530
ISBN-13: 9781560228752
Subjects: Agriculture & Farming; Science/Mathematics; Technology; Agriculture - General; Food Science
First sentence: There are approximately 350,000 botanically acknowledged plant species, but only 24 (i.e., 0.007 percent of them) are used as crops to satisfy most human requirements for food and fiber (Wittwer, 1980).