Establishing conservation priorities for crop wild relatives

Crop Wild Relative Conservation and Use

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 110-119

  Ford Lloyd, B V ^a   Kell, S P ^a   Maxted, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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