Hard red spring wheat at a genetic crossroad: Rural prosperity or corporate hegemony?

Controversies in Science and Technology: From Maize to Menopause

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 150-168

  Olson, R Dennis ^a  

^a Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy   (United States)

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