Plant that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence

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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.

Cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata L.): large leafy head with separate flowering stem, opened fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

Ergot fungus infection in wheat

A plant (Crambe hispanica L.): flowering stem with separate root and floral segments. Coloured etching by M.Bouchard, 177-.

Hop pickers at work. Wood-engraving, c. 1843 (?).

Hops being cut down and harvested: six scenes. Sepia aquatint by W.H. Pyne, ca. 1804.

Six British wild flowers, including three types of trefoil (Lotus species). Coloured lithograph, c. 1856, after H. Humphreys.

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.

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.

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

Cabbage (Brassica oleracea L.).

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

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Crops, Agricultural

Images from the collections

Images referencing Crops, Agricultural

Works from the collections

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.

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.

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

Cabbage (Brassica oleracea L.).

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

Crops, Agricultural

Images from the collections

Images referencing Crops, Agricultural

Works from the collections

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.

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.

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

Cabbage (Brassica oleracea L.).

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

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