Landraces: Importance and use in breeding and environmentally friendly agronomic systems

Agrobiodiversity Conservation: Securing the Diversity of Crop Wild Relatives and Landraces

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 103-117

  Ceccarelli, S ^a  

^a ICARDA BIGM   (Syrian Arab Republic)

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