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Introduction to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… in recent years because they often occur one-sidedly from genetically rich countries in the South to industrialized … offspring. ‘Units of heredity’ are those parts of a living organism that possess the quality to pass traits, such as DNA … all varieties of maize. They discovered that all maize was genetically most similar to a teosinte type from the tropical …
Conservation and Sustainable Use under the International Treaty
… when food is scarce. l The continuing trend of replacing genetically diverse traditional varieties with improved … protection – large area of unmodified or slightly modified land and/or sea, retaining its natural … to the description of the essential properties of an organism or system.10 In the context of PGRFA it involves …