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Crops, Agricultural

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Plants, Cultivated
Farm produce

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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 (?).

Works

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    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
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    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]
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    • 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
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    Cabbage (Brassica oleracea L.).

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