Amber Waves: The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, from Wild Grass to World Megacrop Zabinski Catherine
Amber Waves: The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, from Wild Grass to World Megacrop Zabinski Catherine A biography of a staple grain we often take for granted, exploring how wheat went from wild…
Specifikacia Amber Waves: The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, from Wild Grass to World Megacrop Zabinski Catherine
Amber Waves: The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, from Wild Grass to World Megacrop Zabinski Catherine
A biography of a staple grain we often take for granted, exploring how wheat went from wild grass to a world-shaping crop.At breakfast tables and bakeries, we take for granted a grain that has made human civilization possible, a cereal whose humble origins belie its world-shaping power: wheat. Over thousands of years, we moved their seeds to all but the polar regions of Earth, slowly cultivating what we now know as wheat, and in the process creating a world of cuisines that uses wheat seeds as a staple food. Amber Waves tells the story of a group of grass species that first grew in scattered stands in the foothills of the Middle East until our ancestors discovered their value as a source of food.
Wheat spread across the globe, but as ecologist Catherine Zabinski shows us, a biography of wheat is not only the story of how plants ensure their own success: from the
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