The Chickpea, summer cropping, and a new model for pulse domestication in the ancient Near East

Quarterly Review of Biology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 435-448

  Abbo, Shahal ^a   Shtienberg, Dan ^b   Lichtenzveig, Judith ^a   Lev Yadun, Simcha ^c   Gopher, Avi ^d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chickpea; Crop evolution; Legume domestication; Neolithic Revolution; Summer cropping

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARCHEOLOGY; CHICKPEA; CROP; GERMINATION; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEGUME; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE EAST; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; REVIEW; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGRICULTURE; ARCHAEOLOGY; CICER; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FABACEAE; GERMINATION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANT DISEASES; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ASCOCHYTA; CICER; CICER ARIETINUM; CICER RETICULATUM; DIDYMELLA; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; LENS CULINARIS; LINUM USITATISSIMUM; MYCOSPHAERELLA RABIEI; PISUM SATIVUM; VICIA TETRASPERMA;

EID: 0347664265     PISSN: 00335770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/378927     Document Type: Review

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