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A personal review of the International Food Legume Research Conference (IFLRC)
This many-sided Conference has reviewed a wide range of fascinating topics in pure and applied science, and it has also considered research related to practical questions. Both aspects have been of the greates...
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Plant gene conservation
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Plants, politics and empires
Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens.
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History of African crops
Origins of African Plant Domestication.
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Turkish poppy industry
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Seasonal rainfall forecasting in West Africa
TO provide a basis for the seasonal prediction of rainfall in the Sahel, Winstanley1 presented the linear regression of June on June–September rainfall for 59 stations. This regression is statistically inappropri...
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The classification of varieties of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.)
An expanded scheme of groundnut variety classification is presented which is revised in the light of recently collected West African material and is designed in concordance with the most recent taxonomic treat...
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Cultivated Plants and the Kon-Tiki Theory
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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.
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Food and Agriculture in Develo** Countries
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Plants of the Farm
Agricultural Botany
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Land development and large scale food production in East Africa by the overseas food corporation
The first attempt on a large scale to meet the increasing shortage of food in the world, by develo** hitherto undeveloped areas, is being carried out in East Africa, with emphasis so far on two oil-crops—pea...
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Science in the East African Groundnut Scheme
SIR JOHN RUSSELL, stressing, in his address to the le Play Society at Oxford on December 31, the importance of adequate preparatory experimental work before developments such as the groundnut scheme are undert...