Politics of Plant Breeding

Plant Breeding Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue , 2010, Pages 21-55

  Fowler, Cary ^a   Lower, Richard L ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

"rights" in international arena; Debate over biotechnology hurdles to construct and hurdles to jump; FAO treaty on plant genetic resources and global plan of action; Germplasm, plant breeding and fight for rights; Intellectual property protection and rights; International treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture; Plant breeders' choices public vs. private and GMOs or non GMOs; Plant breeding and politics; Plant breeding, contributions and benefits from growth of biological sciences; Practicing public plant breeders, going down while private breeders are increasing

Indexed keywords

EID: 10444239334     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470650301.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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