Global Ex-Situ Crop Diversity Conservation and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault: Assessing the Current Status

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Westengen, Ola T ^a,b   Jeppson, Simon ^a   Guarino, Luigi ^c  

^a Nordic Genetic Resources Center (NordGen)   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c GLOBAL CROP DIVERSITY TRUST   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABELMOSCHUS; AMARANTHUS; ARTICLE; CHENOPODIUM; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ERAGROSTIS; FOOD CROP; GENETIC RESOURCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; SEED STORAGE;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEEDS; SVALBARD;

EID: 84877325993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064146     Document Type: Article

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