Defining and identifying crop landraces

Plant Genetic Resources: Characterisation and Utilisation

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 373-384

  Camacho Villa, Tania Carolina ^a   Maxted, Nigel ^a   Scholten, Maria ^a   Ford Lloyd, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Crop; Definition; Landraces; Plant genetic resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 30944439142     PISSN: 14792621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/PGR200591     Document Type: Review

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