Genetic Resources of Rice in India: Past and Present
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Book: 29Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
1555283144
Length
609p., Illustrations; Maps; 25cm.
Subjects
According to a crude estimate, there were about 100,000 traditional rice varieties in India a hundred years back. Ever since rice research started in this country about a hundred years ago, there were many piecemeal efforts to collect these varieties, characterize them, evaluate them and use them for the improvement of rice varieties. With the advent of high yielding rice varieties in 1960s, these local varieties have been progressively dropped from cultivation ...
