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Concept

Crops, Agricultural

Images

  • Japanese clover (Lespedeza sp.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate leaf, flower, fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Rye (Secale species): plant stems with seedheads. Watercolour.
  • A coffee tree (Coffea species), nutmeg plant (Myristica fragrans) and cashew nut tree (Anacardium occidentale): flowers and fruit. Coloured engraving, c. 1827.
  • Smoking tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • Rye (Secale sp.): entire flowering plant with separate flower, fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.

Catalogue

    • Books

    World food security and sustainability : the impacts of biotechnology and industrial consolidation / edited by Donald P. Weeks, Jane Baker Segelken, and Ralph W.F. Hardy.

    | Date: [1999], ©1999
    • Books

    The nature of crops : how we came to eat the plants we do / John M. Warren, The Institute of Biological Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, UK.

    Warren, John, 1962- | Date: [2015]
    • Books
    • Online

    Genetically modified organisms and seed segregation : report, together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence and appendices : eighth report / Agriculture Committee.

    Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Agriculture Committee. | Date: 2000
    • Pictures

    Cabbage (Brassica oleracea L.).

    Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801. | Date: [1772] | Reference: 17797i
    • Books

    The hidden half of nature : the microbial roots of life and health / David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé.

    Montgomery, David R., 1961- | Date: [2016]
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