Convergent Adaptations: Bitter Manioc Cultivation Systems in Fertile Anthropogenic Dark Earths and Floodplain Soils in Central Amazonia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Fraser, James Angus ^a,b   Alves Pereira, Alessandro ^c,d   Junqueira, André Braga ^e,f   Peroni, Nivaldo ^g   Clement, Charles Roland ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^f WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STARCH;

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGROECOSYSTEM; AMAZONIAN; ANTHROPOGENIC DARK EARTH SOIL; ARTICLE; BITTER MANIOC CULTIVATION SYSTEM; BRAZIL; CASSAVA; CONVERGENT ADAPTATION; CROPPING SYSTEM; ETHNIC GROUP; FARMING SYSTEM; FLOODPLAIN SOIL; GENETIC SCREENING; MICROENVIRONMENT; NUTRIENT; RIVER; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL PROPERTY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; FLOODS; MANIHOT; SOIL; SOUTH AMERICA; TASTE; TREES;

MANIHOT ESCULENTA;

EID: 84865612757     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043636     Document Type: Article

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