Lexicon of Pulse Crops

ISBN-13: 9781138089433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 361 str.

Aleksandar Mikic

Opis

This book integrates botanical and linguistic data to analyze and interpret the history of grain legume domestication. It details background information on pulse crop origin and domestication followed by linguistics early in the book. Fourteen chapters follow describing the key pulse crops in the world.

Spis treści

1. World’s Pulses 2. World’s Languages 3. Arachis L. 4. Cajanus Adans. 5. Cicer L. 6. Ervum L. 7. Faba Mill. 8. Glycine Willd. 9. Lablab Adans. 10. Lathyrus L. 11. Lens Mill. 12. Lupinus L. 13. Phaseolus L. 14. Pisum L. 15. Vicia L. 16. Vigna Savi

O autorze

Aleksandar Mikić, PhD, born in Pančevo, Serbia, in 1974, is Research Associate and annual legume breeder at the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops in Novi Sad, Serbia. His fields of interest encompass conventional and molecular genetics, genetic resources, breeding, agronomy, agroecology, and crop history of annual legumes. Dr. Mikić co-authored more than 350 journal papers, about 120 international conference papers, over 10 book chapters, and more than 30 legume cultivars. He is also one of the founding members of the International Legume Society (2012), among the creators of the UN FAO 10-Year Research Strategy For Pulse Crops (2016) and is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution (since 2018).