Taxonomy of Cultivated Plants

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 553pp, maps, figs. Brings together the proceedings of the Third International Symposium on the Taxonomy of Cultivated Plants (RBG Edinburgh, 1998), which are relevant to the diverse interests of growers, breeders, scientists and all those involved with marketing and legislation. Contents include: Nomenclature, intellectual property rights, registration of plant names, the cultivar – definition and recognition, DNA fingerprinting, genetically modified crops. Hardback, in dust-wrapper.