Botany or taxonomy text with clear (pen) drawings of florets, spikelets and spikes

[Dean ravenscroft]

Hi,

Kurt Stueber at the max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research is 
currently scanning historical botany books, and making them available on 
the Internet.
There may be some useful drawings available from some of his pages.

http://www.biolib.de/

http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/thome/band1/tafel_051_small.jpg

Dean Ravenscroft

Dave Matthews wrote:

>Hi Maarten,
>
>  
>
>>From maarten.vanginkel at dpi.vic.gov.au  Fri Dec 16 22:17:09 2005
>>
>>Dave,
>>
>>Do you know where I could find a botany or taxonomy text with clear (pen)
>>drawings of the florets, spikelets and spikes of wheat and its progenitors?
>>Most modern texts have photos, while I need the classical precise pen
>>drawings.
>>
>>Regards,
>>            Maarten
>>    
>>
>
>I'm stumped.  Passing this along to others who may be able to help.
>
>The best resource I know for the progenitors is "Wild Wheat", but those
>are all photos.  For what it's worth, they're all in GrainGenes,
>http://wheat.pw.usda.gov/report?class=reference&name=MOR-353
>
>For non-comparative purposes, just wheat:
>
>Gramene is working on this.  They have some good drawings for rice,
>http://www.gramene.org/oryza/rice_illustrations.html#oryzaspikelet
>but not yet for wheat as far as I can find,
>http://dev.gramene.org/triticum/triticum_anatomy_and_taxonomy.html
>
>Keith Edwards' "Wheat: the big picture", http://www.wheatbp.net,
>has some good photos.  Not drawings but they are labeled.  E.g.
>http://www.wheatbp.net/cgi-bin/grain2.pl?topic=Flowering+and+fertilisation&sub_topic=Anthesis:+floret+pictures&GS=5&sub=2
>
>There are a couple of drawings of a general grass floret at
>http://www.pssc.ttu.edu/pss1321/Web%20topics/cpa2.htm
>
>I hope someone can help with this.  It would be a good thing to add
>to GrainGenes.
>
>best,
>- Dave
>
>  
>

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