Taxonomy for horticulturalists available for FREE !!!!

From: "Wilbert Hetterscheid" hetter at worldonline.nl> on 2003.01.26 at 07:09:48(9884) Fellow aroiders, As some of you know I have a "secret" life as taxonomist of cultivated plants and have been developing some new ideas in this department as well as cooperating in writing up the Cultivated Plant Code. Recently a paper was published in the Horticultural Reviews (vol. 28) of which I am co-author. This paper was initiated by and is first-authored by the Chief Potatoe (or was that "potato"?) Taxonomist of the USA, dr. David Spooner of the University of Wisconsin (where last year an Amorphophallus titanum flowered!!!! I suspect a conspiracy here........). Together with him and two other Dutch colleagues we wrote a review paper on plant taxonomy from a horticultural perspective and behold, you can get this 60 pages (AUCH!!!) paper for free on the internet when you follow the link: http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,0471215422,00.html +More On that page click on "read exerpt" and you get a full scale PDF version of the paper. The first half of the paper deals mostly with more general taxonomic principles and terms, the second half deals more specifically with the new ideas of the taxonomy of cultivated ("domesticated") plants. This paper may not be everyone's beef of this discussion list but I know some of you are interested, so have fun with it. Cheerio, Wilbert (aka Lord P.)

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