Abstract
PROF. PERCIVAL'S monograph fills one of the many great gaps in English agricultural literature by providing, for the first time in our language, a comprehensive account of the wheat plant, the most important of the cereal crops. Some idea of the magnitude of the work involved in the production of this book is derived from a statement in the preface that it is based on the study of what is “probably the most representative collection in existence,” since it “includes all the races of wheats, numbering nearly 2000 forms derived from almost all wheat-growing regions of the world,” whilst a brief glance at any section of the book is sufficient to convince the reader, especially perhaps the reader familiar with the crop, that this study has been peculiarly exhaustive.
The Wheat Plant: A Monograph.
By Prof. J. Percival. Pp. x + 463. (London: Duckworth and Co., 1921.) 63s. net.
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B., R. The Wheat Plant: A Monograph . Nature 109, 366–368 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109366a0
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