Lost Crops of the Incas: Little Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation

摘要

The Andes is one of the seven major centers of plant domestication, but the world is largely unfamiliar with its native food crops. When the Conquistadores brought the potato to Europe, they ignored the other domesticated Andean crops -- fruits, legumes, tubers, and grains that had been cultivated for centuries by the Incas. The book focuses on 30 of the 'forgotten' Incan crops that show promise not only for the Andes, but for warm-temperature, subtropical, and upland tropical regions in many parts of the world.