Breeding Field Crops Fifth Edition' title='Breeding Field Crops Fifth Edition' />History of agriculture WikipediaAgrarian history redirects here. For the social philosophy, see agrarianism. For the topic of agricultural society, see agrarian society. Ploughing with a yoke of horned cattle in Ancient Egypt. Painting from the burial chamber of Sennedjem, c. Mark_Nightingale_OSR_Field.jpg' alt='Breeding Field Crops Fifth Edition' title='Breeding Field Crops Fifth Edition' />BCThe history of agriculture records the domestication of plants and animals and the development and dissemination of techniques for raising them productively. Agriculture began independently in different parts of the globe, and included a diverse range of taxa. At least eleven separate regions of the Old and New World were involved as independent centers of origin. Wild grains were collected and eaten from at least 2. BC. From around 9,5. BC, the eight Neolithic founder cropsemmer wheat, einkorn wheat, hulled barley, peas, lentils, bitter vetch, chick peas, and flaxwere cultivated in the Levant. Rice was domesticated in China between 1. BC, followed by mung, soy and azuki beans. Pigs were domesticated in Mesopotamia around 1. BC, followed by sheep between 1. Breeding Field Crops Fifth Edition' title='Breeding Field Crops Fifth Edition' />CONTENTS 1. Introduction 1 2. World Tourism Organisation Indicators 2 3. UN Commission on Sustainable Development Indicators of Sustainable Development. Genetically modified crops GMCs, GM crops, or biotech crops are plants used in agriculture, the DNA of which has been modified using genetic engineering methods. Browse and Read Breeding Field Crops 5th Edition Breeding Field Crops 5th Edition The ultimate sales letter will provide you a distinctive book to overcome you life. Breeding Field Crops Fifth Edition by David Allen Sleper. Breeding Field Crops includes expanded coverage on the role increased knowledge of genetics plays in the. Automatisch En Van Afbeeldingen Outlook. Browse through 14,324,115 journal and book articles on ScienceDirect. University of Nebraska Athletic Director Bill Moos will introduce Scott Frost as the Huskers Head Football Coach during a news conference Sunday in Lincoln. Frost is. BC. Cattle were domesticated from the wild aurochs in the areas of modern Turkey and Pakistan around 8,5. BC. Sugarcane and some root vegetables were domesticated in New Guinea around 7,0. BC. Sorghum was domesticated in the Sahel region of Africa by 5,0. BC. In the Andes of South America, the potato was domesticated between 8,0. BC, along with beans, coca, llamas, alpacas, and guinea pigs. Bananas were cultivated and hybridized in the same period in Papua New Guinea. In Mesoamerica, wild teosinte was domesticated to maize by 4,0. BC. Cotton was domesticated in Peru by 3,6. BC. Camels were domesticated late, perhaps around 3,0. BC. In the Middle Ages, both in the Islamic world and in Europe, agriculture was transformed with improved techniques and the diffusion of crop plants, including the introduction of sugar, rice, cotton and fruit trees such as the orange to Europe by way of Al Andalus. After 1. 49. 2, the Columbian exchange brought New World crops such as maize, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and manioc to Europe, and Old World crops such as wheat, barley, rice, and turnips, and livestock including horses, cattle, sheep, and goats to the Americas. Irrigation, crop rotation, and fertilizers were introduced soon after the Neolithic Revolution and developed much further in the past 2. British Agricultural Revolution. Since 1. 90. 0, agriculture in the developed nations, and to a lesser extent in the developing world, has seen large rises in productivity as human labour has been replaced by mechanization, and assisted by synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and selective breeding. The Haber Bosch process allowed the synthesis of ammonium nitrate fertilizer on an industrial scale, greatly increasing crop yields. Modern agriculture has raised social, political, and environmental issues including water pollution, biofuels, genetically modified organisms, tariffs and farm subsidies. In response, organic farming developed in the twentieth century as an alternative to the use of synthetic pesticides. OriginseditOrigin hypotheseseditScholars have developed a number of hypotheses to explain the historical origins of agriculture. Studies of the transition from hunter gatherer to agricultural societies indicate an antecedent period of intensification and increasing sedentism examples are the Natufian culture in southwest Asia, and the Early Chinese Neolithic in China. Current models indicate that wild stands that had been harvested previously started to be planted, but were not immediately domesticated. Localised climate change is the favoured explanation for the origins of agriculture in the Levant. When major climate change took place after the last ice age c. BC, much of the earth became subject to long dry seasons. These conditions favoured annual plants which die off in the long dry season, leaving a dormantseed or tuber. An abundance of readily storable wild grains and pulses enabled hunter gatherers in some areas to form the first settled villages at this time. Early developmenteditSumerian harvesters sickle, 3,0. BC, made from baked clay. Early people began altering communities of flora and fauna for their own benefit through means such as fire stick farming and forest gardening very early. Exact dates are hard to determine, as people collected and ate seeds before domesticating them, and plant characteristics may have changed during this period without human selection. An example is the semi tough rachis and larger seeds of cereals from just after the Younger Dryas about 9,5. BC in the early Holocene in the Levant region of the Fertile Crescent. Monophyletic characteristics were attained without any human intervention, implying that apparent domestication of the cereal rachis could have occurred quite naturally. An Indian farmer with a rock weighted scratch plough pulled by two oxen. Similar ploughs were used throughout antiquity. Agriculture began independently in different parts of the globe, and included a diverse range of taxa. At least 1. 1 separate regions of the Old and New World were involved as independent centers of origin. Some of the earliest known domestications were of animals. Pigs were domesticated in Mesopotamia around 1. BC. 1. 1Sheep were domesticated in Mesopotamia between 1. BC. 1. 2Cattle were domesticated from the wild aurochs in the areas of modern Turkey and Pakistan around 8,5. BC. 1. 3Camels were domesticated late, perhaps around 3,0. BC. 1. 4It was not until after 9,5. BC that the eight so called founder crops of agriculture appear first emmer and einkorn wheat, then hulled barley, peas, lentils, bitter vetch, chick peas and flax. These eight crops occur more or less simultaneously on Pre Pottery Neolithic B PPNB sites in the Levant, although wheat was the first to be grown and harvested on a significant scale. At around the same time 9. BC, parthenocarpicfig trees were domesticated. By 7,0. 00 BC, sowing and harvesting reached the fertile soil of Mesopotamia, where Sumerians systematized it and scaled it up. By 8,0. 00 BC, farming was entrenched on the banks of the River Nile. About this time, agriculture was developed independently in the Far East, probably in China, with rice rather than wheat as the primary crop. Maize was domesticated from the wild grass teosinte in West Mexico by 6,7. BC. 1. 8 The potato 8,0. BC, tomato,1. 9pepper 4,0. BC, squash 8,0. BC and several varieties of bean 8,0. BC onwards were domesticated in the New World. Agriculture was independently developed on the island of New Guinea. In Greece from c. BC lentils, vetch, pistachios, and almonds were cultivated, while wild oats and wild barley appear in quantity from c. BC alongside einkorn wheat, barley, sheep, goats and pigs,2. Cyprus between 9,1. BC. 2. 42. 5Banana cultivation of Musa acuminata, including hybridization, dates back to 5,0. BC, and possibly to 8,0. BC, in Papua New Guinea. Bees were kept for honey in the Middle East around 7,0. BC. 2. 8 Archaeological evidence from various sites on the Iberian peninsula suggest the domestication of plants and animals between 6,0. BC. 2. 5Cide Fields in Ireland, consisting of extensive tracts of land enclosed by stone walls, date to 3,5. BC and are the oldest known field systems in the world. The horse was domesticated in the Pontic steppe around 4,0. D. A. Sleper 9. 78. Amazon. com Books. Long recognized as the standard work in its field, this fifth edition of Breeding Field Crops deals with worldwide advances in plant breeding science and practice in recent years. Building on the foundations of earlier editions, this thoroughly revised volume includes expanded coverage on the role increased knowledge of genetics plays in the development of new crop cultivars, and fully explores exciting new developments in molecular biology. Breeding Field Crops, 5th Edition, thoroughly covers the field of plant breeding. 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