Ecological approaches to crop domestication

Biodiversity in Agriculture: Domestication, Evolution, and Sustainability

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 377-406

  McKey, D B ^a   Elias, M ^b   Pujol, B ^c   Duputie A ^a,d  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139019514.023     Document Type: Chapter

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