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Decentralized-participatory plant breeding: an example of demand driven research

2007-06-01

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It is widely recognized that conventional plant breeding has been more beneficial to farmers in high-potential environments or those who can profitably modify their environment to suit new cultivars, than to the poorest farmers who cannot afford to modify their environment through the application of additional inputs and cannot risk the replacement of their traditional, well known and reliable varieties. As a cons...

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Literature Corpus work: 38f5ffbd-ad9c-5503-873a-5b6b742f00f2
DOI: 10.1007/s10681-006-9336-8

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