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Lost Crops of the Incas: Little Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation.

PB90176546

Publication Date	1989
Personal Author	Popenoe, H.; King, S. R.; Leon, J.; Kalinowski, L. S.
Page Count	440
Abstract	The Andes is one of the seven major centers of plant domestication, but the world is largely unfamiliar with its native food crops. When the Conquistadores brought the potato to Europe, they ignored the other domesticated Andean crops -- fruits, legumes, tubers, and grains that had been cultivated for centuries by the Incas. The book focuses on 30 of the 'forgotten' Incan crops that show promise not only for the Andes, but for warm-temperature, subtropical, and upland tropical regions in many parts of the world.
Keywords	Farm crops Peru Fruits Grains(Food) Leguminous plants Root crops Tuber crops Taxonomy Agronomy History Developing countries Andes Mountains Inca Indian tribe
Source Agency	Agency for International Development of Science and Technology
NTIS Subject Category	98D - Agronomy, Horticulture, & Plant Pathology 57C - Botany
Corporate Authors	National Research Council, Washington, DC. Board on Science and Technology for International Development.; Agency for International Development, Washington, DC.
Supplemental Notes	Library of Congress catalog card no. 89-42566. Sponsored by Agency for International Development, Washington, DC.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	199010
Contract Number	AID/DAN-5538-G-SS-1023-00

Lost Crops of the Incas: Little Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation.

Lost Crops of the Incas: Little Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation.
PB90176546

Publication Date	1989
Personal Author	Popenoe, H.; King, S. R.; Leon, J.; Kalinowski, L. S.
Page Count	440
Abstract	The Andes is one of the seven major centers of plant domestication, but the world is largely unfamiliar with its native food crops. When the Conquistadores brought the potato to Europe, they ignored the other domesticated Andean crops -- fruits, legumes, tubers, and grains that had been cultivated for centuries by the Incas. The book focuses on 30 of the 'forgotten' Incan crops that show promise not only for the Andes, but for warm-temperature, subtropical, and upland tropical regions in many parts of the world.
Keywords	Farm crops Peru Fruits Grains(Food) Leguminous plants Root crops Tuber crops Taxonomy Agronomy History Developing countries Andes Mountains Inca Indian tribe
Source Agency	Agency for International Development of Science and Technology
NTIS Subject Category	98D - Agronomy, Horticulture, & Plant Pathology 57C - Botany
Corporate Authors	National Research Council, Washington, DC. Board on Science and Technology for International Development.; Agency for International Development, Washington, DC.
Supplemental Notes	Library of Congress catalog card no. 89-42566. Sponsored by Agency for International Development, Washington, DC.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	199010
Contract Number	AID/DAN-5538-G-SS-1023-00