Early evidence for the use of wheat and barley as staple crops on the margins of the Tibetan Plateau

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 5625-5630

  D'Alpoim Guedes, Jade A ^a   Lu, Hongliang ^b   Hein, Anke M ^c   Schmidt, Amanda H ^d  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Barley; Modeling; Staple crops; Tibet; Wheat

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BARLEY; CHINA; CROP; FLAX; FRAGARIA; HIPPOPHAE RHAMNOIDES; LINUM; MALVA; MILLET; NONHUMAN; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; POTENTILLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRUNUS; RADIOMETRIC DATING; RUBUS; SAMBUCUS; VICIA; WHEAT; ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HORDEUM; HUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TIME; TRENDS;

HORDEUM; LINUM USITATISSIMUM; SETARIA FABERI; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGRICULTURE; ALTITUDE; CHINA; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HORDEUM; HUMANS; PALEONTOLOGY; TIBET; TIME FACTORS; TRITICUM;

EID: 84928975459     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1423708112     Document Type: Article

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