The Origin of Cultivated Plants

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Origin of Cultivated Plants
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Alphonse de Candolle
SeriesCambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:482
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenreHistory of science
Botany and plant sciences
Agronomy and crop production
ISBN/Barcode 9781108038904
ClassificationsDewey:581.63
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 3 November 2011
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.