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Author : N. Maxted, B.V. Ford-Lloyd & J.G. Hawkes
Published in : Kluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN : 978-94-009-1437-7
File Type : pdf
File Size :8.63 mb
Language : English
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Author : N. Maxted, B.V. Ford-Lloyd & J.G. Hawkes
Published in : Kluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN : 978-94-009-1437-7
File Type : pdf
File Size :8.63 mb
Language : English
Published in : Kluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN : 978-94-009-1437-7
File Type : pdf
File Size :8.63 mb
Language : English
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The recent development of ideas on biodiversity conservation was already being considered almost three-quarters of a century ago for crop plants and the wild species related to them, by the Russian geneticist N.!. Vavilov. He was undoubtedly the first scientist to understand the importance for humankind of conserving for utilization the genetic diversity of our ancient crop plants and their wild relatives from their centres of diversity. His collections showed various traits of adaptation to environmental extremes and biotypes of crop diseases and pests which were unknown to most plant breeders in the first quarter of the twentieth century.
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