A Review of 'Crop Protection in Medieval Agriculture. Studies in Pre-Modern Organic'
Journal Title: UNKNOWN - Year 2015, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
This brilliant and original book by Jan Zadoks, a renowned, prolific and polyglot Dutch plant epidemiologist [2], provides a systematic, learned and well-structured overview of our understanding of medieval crop protection in Europe.
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Marco Pautasso
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