title: [The importance of the wheat harvest in the expedition of Mopox in Cuba (1797-1799)].
abstract: The expedition of Mopox gathers, during their stay in the island of Cuba, a variety of acclimatized wheat that constituted a rarity of the agricultural flora of the Habana. The gathering work carried out by the naturalist and expeditionary Baltasar Boldo, favored the description that Mariano Lagasca fulfill later in the Royal Botanical Garden from Madrid. The effort of the Spanish botanists has served in order to identify the wheat that continued cultivating in the region of Villa Clara in the XIXth century, and in order to recommend to the agricultural Cuban institutions the cultivation of a type of wheat similar to that which Boldo found in the vicinity of the Habana.
authors.affiliation: Centro Estudios de Historia de la Ciencia y la Tecnologia, La Habana, Cuba.
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Misas Jimémez
mesh_terms: D001901:Botany / Q000266:history*; D003462:Cuba; D005101:Expeditions / Q000266:history*; D049671:History, 18th Century; D013030:Spain; D014908:Triticum / Q000266:history
vernacular_title: Trascendencia del trigo recolectado por la expedición de Mopox en Cuba (1797-1799).