Илтис, Хью Хеллмут цитаты

Хью Хеллмут Илтис — американский ботаник, почётный профессор ботаники чехословацкого происхождения, известный прежде всего своими открытиями в окультуривании кукурузы сахарной. Wikipedia

✵ 7. Апрель 1925 – 19. Декабрь 2016

Илтис, Хью Хеллмут: 3 цитаты 0 Нравится

Илтис, Хью Хеллмут: Цитаты на английском языке

“The classification of biodiversity is the job of taxonomists who, born as packrats and inspired by a compulsion to explore and collect the world's biological riches, will risk life and limb to solve the great puzzles of biogeography, ethnobotany, and evolution.”

Help us translate this quote

Hugh Iltis

1988)[Serendipity in the exploration of biodiversity, Biodiversity, National Academy Press, 98–105, https://books.google.com/books?id=MkUrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA98] (quote from p. 98

“The general biological ignorance bodes ill for democratic decisions on environmental issues.”

Help us translate this quote

Hugh Iltis

[December 1973, http://iltis.botany.wisc.edu/Can%20one%20love%20a%20plastic%20tree%20.pdf, Can one love a plastic tree?, Can One Love a Plastic Tree?", Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 54, 4, 5-7, 9, 20165966]

“Current evidence suggests that teosinte was first tended for its green ears and sugary pith by hunter-gatherers as an occasional rainy-season food in small “garden” populations away from its homeland, and not for its abundant grain-containing, hard fruitcases, which easily mass-collected but useless as food, are as yet unknown from the archeological record. A rare grain-liberating teosinte mutation (probably expressed in only one “founder” plant, a mazoid “Eve”), which exposed the encased grain for easy harvest, was soon recognized as useful, collected and planted (or self-planted). Thus maize was started on its way to a unique horticultural domestication that is not comparable to that of the temperate Old World mass-selected agricultural grains.”

Help us translate this quote

Hugh Iltis

[January 2000, Homeotic Sexual Translocations and the Origin of Maize (Zea mays, Poaceae): A New Look at an Old Problem, Economic Botany, 54, 1, 7–42, 10.1007/BF02866598] (quote from p. 7)