Seeds without patents : Science and morality in British plant breeding in the long nineteenth-century

Revue Economique

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 69-87

  Charnley, Berris ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84872938856     PISSN: 00352764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3917/reco.641.0069     Document Type: Article

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