Plant Genetic Conservation: The in Situ Approach

by Nigel Maxted

Book Overview

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 impor- tance 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0412637308
• ISBN13: 9780412637308
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"