Role of informal seed system in promoting landrace diversity and their on-farm conservation: A case study of rice in Indian Himalayas

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1213-1224

  Pandey, Avinash ^a,b   Bisht, I S ^a   Bhat, K V ^a   Mehta, P S ^a  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES   (India)

^b ICAR RESEARCH COMPLEX FOR NEH REGION   (India)

Author keywords

In situ conservation on farm; Informal seed system; Landrace diversification; Rice (Oryza sativa L.); Sustainable crop production

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION GENETICS; CROP IMPROVEMENT; CULTIVAR; CULTIVATION; FOOD PRODUCTION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GERMPLASM; RICE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA; UTTARAKHAND;

ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 80054107145     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10722-010-9654-5     Document Type: Article

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