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July 11, 2014 at 05:17PM Social structure, a determining factor for crop diversity

How do human societies influence crop evolution processes? Researchers from CIRAD and their partners recently demonstrated that sorghum genetic diversity distribution in eastern Kenya was linked to the ethnolinguistic origin of farmers. Taking this into account would make genetic resource collection and characterization programmes more efficienct. This is a major issue for resource conservation.






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