Saving seeds : the economics of conserving crop genetic resources ex situ in the future harvest centres of the CGIAR / Bonwoo Koo, Philip G. Pardey, and Brian D. Wright ; with Paula Bramel [and others]

The conservation of genetic resources is vital to the maintenance of biodiversity and to the world's ability to feed its growing population. There are now more than a thousand genebanks worldwide involved in the ex situ (meaning ''away from the source'') storage of particula...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Koo, Bonwoo
Other Authors:	Pardey, Philip G., Wright, Brian, 1948 January 1-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., ©2004.
Series:	Cabi Ser.
Subjects:	Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Crops > Germplasm resources. Gene banks, Plant. Crop zones.