Anchoring durum wheat diversity in the reality of traditional agricultural systems: Varieties, seed management, and farmers' perception in two Moroccan regions

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Chentoufi, Lamyae ^a   Sahri, Ali ^a   Arbaoui, Mustapha ^a   Belqadi, Loubna ^a   Birouk, Ahmed ^a   Roumet, Pierre ^b   Muller, Marie Hélène ^b  

^a INSTITUT AGRONOMIQUE ET VÉTÉRINAIRE HASSAN II   (Morocco)

^b UMR AGAP   (France)

Author keywords

Farmers' knowledge; In situ conservation; Interviews; Traditional agriculture; Triticum turgidum; Varietal diversity

Indexed keywords

TRITICUM TURGIDUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DURUM;

AGRICULTURE; CROP; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; MOROCCO; PERCEPTION; PLANT SEED; WHEAT;

AGRICULTURE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; MOROCCO; PERCEPTION; SEEDS; TRITICUM;

EID: 84905965947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-10-58     Document Type: Article

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