Origin of Near Eastern plant domestication: Homage to Claude Levi-Strauss and "La Pensée Sauvage"

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 175-179

  Abbo, Shahal ^a   Lev Yadun, Simcha ^b   Gopher, Avi ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; DOMESTICATION; LITERATURE REVIEW; NATURAL SELECTION; NEOLITHIC; PHYLOGENY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TAXONOMY;

EID: 79951557649     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10722-010-9630-0     Document Type: Article

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