A risk-minimizing argument for traditional crop varietal diversity use to reduce pest and disease damage in agricultural ecosystems

Much of the worlds' annual harvest loss to pests and diseases occurs as a consequence of crops grown in monocultures, or crop varieties with uniform resistance. This uniform resistance is met by the continuing evolution of new races of pests and pathogens that are able to overcome resistance genes i...

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Main Authors: Jarvis, D., Mulumba, J., Peng, H., Paparu, P., Yang, Y., Lu, C., Fadda, Carlo
Format: Otro
Language:Inglés
Published: 2014
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75964

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