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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Cambridge, MA :
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| Summary: | 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 particular classes of crops. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 207 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-196) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0851990452 9780851990453 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |