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Genes from the Wild: Using Wild Genetic Resources for Food and Raw Materials (Earthscan Library Collection: Natural Resource Management Set)
Genes from the Wild Using Wild Genetic Resources for Food and Raw Materials - Earthscan Library Collection: Natural Resource Management Set
Author: Robert Prescott-Allen, Chrstine Prescott-Allen
Tomatoes could not be grown commercially without the help of their wild relatives. A single wild species of rice has helped double rice production in Asia. Wild silk-worms are enabling India to expand its silk industry. A wild carp with resistance to cold has been used to extend Soviet carp production further into the north. — Wild genetic resour...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781849710121
ISBN-10: 1849710120
Pages: 116
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Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Book Type: Hardcover
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