Darwinian agriculture
Subtitle: how understanding evolution can improve agriculture
By: R. Ford Denison
Edition: Hardcover ed.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691139500
Subjects: Crops; Evolution; Agricultural biotechnology; Evolution (Biology); Sustainable agriculture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Repaying Darwin's debt to agriculture; title: What do we need from agriculture?; title: Evolution 101: the power of natural selection; title: Darwinian agriculture's three core principles; title: What won't work: tradeoff-blind biotechnology; title: Selfish genes, sophisticated plants, and haphazard ecosystems; title: What won't work: misguided mimicry of natural ecosystems; title: What has worked: improving cooperation within species; title: What could work better: cooperation between two species; title: Stop evolution now!; title: Learning from plants, ants, and ecosystems; title: Diversity, bet-hedging, and selection among ideas.