Plant Domestication and Crop Evolution in the Near East: On Events and Processes

Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 241-257

  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

conscious vs. unconscious selection; domestication episode; origin of Near Eastern agriculture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860772328     PISSN: 07352689     EISSN: 15497836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07352689.2011.645428     Document Type: Article

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