Correspondence of Charles Darwin on James Torbitt’s project to breed blight-resistant potatoes

Archives of Natural History

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 208-222

  Dearce, M ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Belfast; famine; Ireland; nineteenth century; Phytophthora; potato cultivars

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CROP; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; FOOD; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY; IRELAND; JURISPRUDENCE; LEGAL ASPECT; PERSONNEL; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT SEED; PLANT TUBER; PLANT VIRUS; POTATO; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESEARCH; SEEDLING; STARVATION; WRITING;

COMMERCE; CORRESPONDENCE AS TOPIC; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; EUROPE; FOOD; FOOD SUPPLY; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; IRELAND; JURISPRUDENCE; PLANT TUBERS; PLANT VIRUSES; PLANTS, EDIBLE; RESEARCH; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SEEDLING; SEEDS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; STARVATION;

EID: 63249127953     PISSN: 02609541     EISSN: 17556260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/E0260954108000351     Document Type: Article

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