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Crop Ferality and Volunteerism
Crop Ferality and VolunteerismJB. Gressel ed. 2005.
Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. Price £97 (hardback). 422 pp.
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Volunteers and weedy crop (feral) plants have been with us ever since the domestication of crops. Whilst we know a great deal about their biology and management as weeds, little scientific attention has been paid to their evolution, and understanding their role in the domestication and de-domestication of crops. With the commercialization of transgenic crops, there is a greater urgency to understand these processes and establish whether volunteer (crop plants that germinate in subsequent years after a crop has been harvested) and feral (plants derived in full or in part
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