The Origin of Cultivated Plants

By:

Alphonse De Candolle

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Paperback / softback

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Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture

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Alphonse de Candolle (1806–93) was a French-Swiss botanist who was an important figure in the study of the origins of plants and the reasons for their geographic distribution. He also created the first Code of Botanical Nomenclature. Despite initially studying law, he took over both the chair of botany at the University of Geneva, and the directorship of Geneva's botanical gardens from his father Augustin de Candolle (1778–1841). He published numerous botanical books, and edited ten volumes of the Prodromus, a seventeen-volume reference text intended to cover the key properties of all known seed plants. This work, reissued in the second edition of the English translation of 1886, is his most famous and influential book, tracing the geographic origins of plants known to have been cultivated by humans. It is one of the earliest studies of the history of crop domestication, and an important contribution to phytogeography.

Release date Australia

November 3rd, 2011

Author

Alphonse De Candolle

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

482

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture

Dimensions

140x216x27

ISBN-13

9781108038904

Product ID

18633265

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