Twenty-five years of international exchanges of plant genetic resources facilitated by the CGIAR genebanks: a case study on global interdependence

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1421-1446

  Galluzzi, Gea ^a   Halewood, Michael ^a   Noriega, Isabel López ^a   Vernooy, Ronnie ^a  

^a BIOVERSITY INTERNATIONAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breeding; Conservation; Interdependence; International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture; Multilateral system; Plant genetic resources

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; BREEDING; CONSERVATION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RESOURCE; GERMPLASM; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84968698124     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-016-1109-7     Document Type: Article

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