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Status of alien plant invasions in the North-eastern region of India.
By Shankar, U. Yadav, A. S. Rai, J. P. N. Tripathi, R. S.
2012 (H ISBN 9781845939076)
This chapter describes the diversity of invasive alien species in the north-eastern region of India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Miz...
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Biology, ecology and spread of the invasive weed Parthenium hysterophorus in India.
By Batish, D. R. Kohli, R. K. Singh, H. P. Kaur, G.
2012 (H ISBN 9781845939076)
This chapter covers the geographical distribution (including central Argentina, the West Indies, the Gulf of Mexico, China, Taiwan, Nepal, Pakistan, S...
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Plant invasion in India: an overview.
By Kohli, R. K. Batish, D. R. Singh, J. S. Singh, H. P. Bhatt, J. R.
2012 (H ISBN 9781845939076)
This chapter describes the status and vulnerability of the Indian region to plant invasion, and presents the major invasive plants in India and their ...
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Overview of the global goat meat sector.
By Mahgoub, O. Kadim, I. T. Lu, C. D.
2012 (H ISBN 9781845938499)
This chapter gives an overview of the goat meat sector. It describes the current situation of the goat as a meat animal and gives an account of goat p...
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A community divided: lessons from the conservation of crop wild relatives around the world.
By Hunter, D. Guarino, L. Khoury, C. Dempewolf, H.
2012 (H ISBN 9781845938512)
The in situ conservation of CWR is equally inadequate, with very few examples of effective conservation actions inside protected areas, and even fewer...
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European crop wild relative threat assessment: knowledge gained and lessons learnt.
By Kell, S. P. Maxted, N. Bilz, M.
2012 (H ISBN 9781845938512)
This chapter summarizes the procedure used to select the crop wild relative (CWR) species for inclusion in the European Red List and the process and r...
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Quality standards for genetic reserve conservation of crop wild relatives.
By Iriondo, J. M. Maxted, N. Kell, S. P. Ford-Lloyd, B. V. Lara-Romero, C. Labokas, J. Brehm, J. M.
2012 (H ISBN 9781845938512)
This chapter presents a set of quality standards for the conservation of crop wild relative taxa in genetic reserves (GRs) or areas designated for the...
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Achievements of the European native seed conservation network - ENSCONET.
By Eastwood, R. J. Müller, J. V.
2012 (H ISBN 9781845938512)
ENSCONET was initiated to facilitate the ex situ conservation of the native European seed-bearing flora. The purposes of ENSCONET are to: improve qual...
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Comparing genetic diversity within a crop and its wild progenitor: a case study for barley.
By Kilian, B. Özkan, H. Shaaf, S. Hübner, S. Pasam, R. K. Sharma, R. Neumann, K. Weissgerber, W. Konovalov, F. A. Keilwagen, J. Friedel, S. Knüpffer, H. Korff, M. von Coupland, G. Graner, A.
2012 (H ISBN 9781845938512)
In this paper, barley domestication, new strategies and challenges on ex situ germplasm resources for crop improvement, diversity of in situ genetic r...
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Interactive characterization of Scottish Avena strigosa Schreb. landraces on the outer hebrides.
By Scholten, M. Spoor, B. Green, N. Carter, S. MacPherson, N.
2012 (H ISBN 9781845938512)
A planned characterization study of Scottish landraces of bristle oat (Avena strigosa [Avena nuda]) was redesigned and became an 'on farm' project in ...
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