Impacts of Changing Climate and Climate Variability on Seed Production and Seed Industry

Advances in Agronomy

Volumn 118, Issue , 2013, Pages 49-110

  Singh, Rishi P ^a   Prasad, P V Vara ^b   Reddy, K Raja ^c  

^a BIRSA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate variability; Intellectual property rights; Pollination; Seed production

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871500563     PISSN: 00652113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-405942-9.00002-5     Document Type: Chapter

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