Biodiversity and Vegetable Breeding in the Light of Developments in Intellectual Property Rights
Year: 2011
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Farming and plant breeding have been closely associated since the early days when crops were first domesticated. Plant breeding was built on biodiversity and on the work of 10,000 years of farmers’s selection and some generations of breeders. Without understanding the science behind it, early farmers saved the seed from the best portion of their crop each
Source: InTech eBooks
DOI: 10.5772/23371
Author: Joao Silva
Institution: Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
Language: English
Topic: Intellectual Property Law
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W1606576987