Public funding for research into specialty crops

HortScience

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1461-1470

  Alston, Julian M ^a   Pardey, Philip G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c International Science and Technology Practice and Policy

Author keywords

Public R D; Research benefits; Research funding; Specialty crops

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249110352     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.43.5.1461     Document Type: Review

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