La Turquie Agricole (Partie Asiatique-Anatolie)

Abstract

THIS book is the outcome of three expeditions into Asiatic Turkey made by the author in 1925-27 on behalf of the Institute of Applied Botany at Leningrad. The practical aim of the expeditions was the discovery and collection of native varieties of cultivated plants suitable for introduction into Russia, and the bulk of the book is devoted to detailed monographic treatment, by some twenty authors, of the plants and their varieties cultivated in Turkey.