Prepared under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development by scholars and practitioners from all over Poland, this is a superb compendium on native and permanently established crop relatives in our country. Crop wild relatives (CWRs) are not only actual, or at least potential, donors of useful traits in crop breeding, but often also naturally occurring useful plants, such as yellow mullein, dyer's mane, meadow sage or northern wintercress.

A number of chapters of this much-needed collective work for agrobiologists, farmers, foresters, local and central government officials and many other professional groups were co-authored by employees of the PAN Botanical Garden - CZRB in Powsin: Prof. Arkadiusz Nowak and Adam Kapler, MA. The book also uses numerous excellent photographs of plants by Dr. Iwona Dembicz.

The book is a comprehensive compendium of knowledge about wild species that are related to cultivated plants. It is the first work devoted to those species of domestic flora that can be used by humans, and their genetic resources provide invaluable potential for improving the properties of cultivated plants. This publication is part of a very lively current of publications on plants long underestimated, left somewhat on the margins of biotic diversity conservation. Dozens of authors representing different areas of plant knowledge participated in the preparation of this item. As a result, the reader gains access to a wide resource of information on more than a thousand species of the flora of Poland.  (From a review by Prof. Bogdan Jackowiak, UAM Poznań).

Scientific monograph: D. Dostatny, Z. Dajdok (eds.) 2020 Wild species related to cultivated plants occurring in Poland. Crop wild relatives occurring in Poland. Kontekst Publishing House, Poznań, 408 pp.

Issue: first
Year of issue: 2020
Binding: hard
Volume: 408 pages
Format: 214×303 mm
Category: life sciences
ISBN 978-83-66476-12-7

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