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    Travels with Charley—sunflowers and beyond: an appreciation of the life and work of Charles B. Heiser, Jr. (1920-2010)

    Barbara Pickersgill, Gregory J. Anderson in Economic Botany (2010)

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    Book reviews Daniel F Austin

    Mary W. Eubanks, Barbara Pickersgill, Concepción Obón, Diego Rivera… in Economic Botany (2006)

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    Dorothea Bedigian, Sebsebe Demissew, Paul Gepts, Daniel F. Austin… in Economic Botany (2005)

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    The Society for Economic Botany Professor Daniel Zohary 2003 Distinguished Economic Botanist

    Barbara Pickersgill in Economic Botany (2004)

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    News & Notes

    Barbara Pickersgill in Economic Botany (2001)

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    Genetic resources and breeding of Capsicum spp.

    Five species of Capsicum have been domesticated in the American tropics, but breeding programs have concentrated on the non-pungent cultivars of C. annuum. Studies of the consequences of human selection during...

    Barbara Pickersgill in Euphytica (1997)

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    Ethnobotany and domestication in Xoconochtli,Stenocereus stellatus (Cactaceae), in the Tehuacán Valley and La Mixteca Baja, México

    Ethnobotanical information is presented on use, management, folk nomenclature and classification of the “xoconochtli” (Stenocereus stellatus) as well as on the role of this plant in subsistence of the Nahua, Mixt...

    Alejandro Casas, Barbara Pickersgill, Javier Caballero… in Economic Botany (1997)

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    Chromosomal structural changes in Capsicum annuum L. and C. chinense Jacq.

    Meiosis was studied in an F1 hybrid between domesticated Capsicum annuum and its close relative C. chinense. The parental accessions differed by two chromosomal interchanges. A hexavalent was present in 18% of po...

    Sergio Lanteri, Barbara Pickersgill in Euphytica (1993)

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    Interspecific Hybridisation in Vicia Section Faba: Comparison of Selfed and Hybrid Embryo and Endosperm

    In certain interspecific combinations involving Vicia faba (e.g. V. faba var. paucijuga x V johannis var. procumbens) fertilisation occurs frequently but embryos do not reach a sufficient size to be cultured by c...

    Gavin Ramsay, Barbara Pickersgill in Systems for Cytogenetic Analysis in Vicia Faba L. (1984)

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    Preclassic lowland maize from Cuello, Belize

    In spite of recent progress towards an understanding of prehispanic Maya agriculture, relatively little is known about plants grown prehistorically in the Petén, Belize and the Yucatan Peninsula. Little plant ...

    Charles H. Miksicek, Robert McK. Bird, Barbara Pickersgill, Sara Donaghey… in Nature (1981)

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    Plant breeding

    Barbara Pickersgill in Nature (1980)

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    Taxonomy and the origin and evolution of cultivated plants in the New World

    Current taxonomic problems in cultivated plants include delimitation of species, whether speciation has occurred under domestication, and the role of weedy relatives in the evolution of domesticates. Many cult...

    Barbara Pickersgill in Nature (1977)

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    New aspect of old subject

    Palaeoeconomy.

    Barbara Pickersgill in Nature (1975)

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    Cultivated Plants and the Kon-Tiki Theory

    Did American Indians cross the Pacific to Polynesia before Columbus made his discovery ? Botanical evidence at least does not seem to support a positive answer.

    BARBARA PICKERSGILL, A. H. BUNTING in Nature (1969)