Overviews are presented by R.H.M. Langer and G.D. Hill, Agricultural Plants, 2nd ed. (1991), a description of the major varieties and their products; Jules Janick et al., Plant Science: An Introduction to World Crops, 3rd ed. (1981); and J.W. Purseglove, Tropical Crops: Dicotyledons, 2 vol. (1968, reissued in 1 vol., 1974), and Tropical Crops: Monocotyledons, 2 vol. (1972, reprinted in 1 vol., 1988).
Works focusing on plant breeding include John Milton Poehlman, Breeding Field Crops, 3rd ed. (1987); Neal F. Jensen, Plant Breeding Methodology (1988); and Abraham Blum, Plant Breeding for Stress Environments (1988).
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