Natural pesticides and the evolution of food plants

✍ Scribed by Jones, David A

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 72 KB
• Volume: 55
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1526-498X
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9063(199906)55:6<634::aid-ps982>3.0.co;2-1

✦ Synopsis

Cyanogenesis, a naturally occurring pesticide, played an essential role in the origin of plant agriculture. When our ancestors were domesticating plants, they chose a disproportionate number of cyanogenic species.