The Dispersal of Musa in Central America
The Domestication Process in Action
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8377338 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carl L Johannessen (Institute of Geography of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 689-698 |
| Publication date | 1970-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1970.tb00753.x |
| OpenAlex | W2011322929 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 3 |
Subsistence farmers among the Central American Indians try to grow the maximum number of different varieties of plantains and bananas as a form of insurance against possible disaster. They initially secure most of the vegetative shoots used to reproduce these Musas from their parents and relatives. However, shoots are given willingly and freely to anyone who asks for them, and new forms disperse readily within a cultural group. By the time an Indian is thirty years old he has usually obtained a normal diversity of forms. Some variables in observations on the processes involved in crop improvement are obviated when the subjects of the studies are bananas and plantains. The processes that are made more easy to investigate include perception, selection, maintenance, and dispersal of the varieties
Action (physics) · Agriculture · Agroforestry · Archaeology · Biological dispersal · Biology · Botany · Crop · Diversity (politics) · Domestication · Geography · Population · Shoot · Sociology · Subsistence agriculture · Anthropology · Banana Cultivation and Research · Demography · Ecology · Forestry
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 2021 (45) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |