Competitive underutilized crops will depend on the state funding of breeding programmes: An opinion on the example of Europe

Plant Breeding

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 461-464

  Stamp, Peter ^a   Messmer, Rainer ^a   Walter, Achim ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alternative crops; Long term breeding; Underutilized crops

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863993839     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: 14390523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0523.2012.01990.x     Document Type: Review

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