Beta maritima The Origin of Beets /

• Main Authors: Biancardi, Enrico (Author), Panella, Leonard W. (Author), Lewellen, Robert T. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Plant science.; Botany.; Plant anatomy.; Plant development.; Plant genetics.; Plant physiology.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Sciences.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Plant Anatomy/Development.; Plant Physiology.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.

Along the undisturbed shores, especially of the Mediterranean Sea and the European North Atlantic Ocean, is a quite widespread plant called Beta maritima by botanists, or more commonly sea beet. Nothing, for the inexperienced observer's eye, distinguishes it from surrounding wild vegetation. De...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• History and current importance
• Range of distribution
• Morphology, physiology, and ecology
• Taxonomy
• Uses
• Source of useful traits
• Cultivated offspring
• The Future
• Appendix.