Ancient Introductions of Crops and Related Taxa into India and Export out of Indian Subcontinent: Some Facutal Data and Gaps in Our Knowledge

Abstract

Indian Sub-continent with its tremendous ecogeographical,
climatic, pedological and floristic variations
has been a wonderful field cum natural laboratory for
testing various hypotheses regarding introduction of crop
plants, their putative ancestors and related taxa of plants
as well as animals since prehistoric times, at the hands
of Man.