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28 - Imperilled crops and endangered flowers

from IV - Connecting and conserving

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2018

By
Helen Anne Curry
Edited by
Helen Anne Curry ,
Nicholas Jardine ,
James Andrew Secord  and
Emma C. Spary
Helen Anne Curry
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Nicholas Jardine
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
James Andrew Secord
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Emma C. Spary
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Worlds of Natural History , pp. 460 - 475
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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Further reading

Adams, W., Against Extinction: The Story of Conservation (London, 2004).Google Scholar
Akoi, K., Seed Wars: Cases and Controversies on Plant Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property (Durham, NC, 2008).Google Scholar
Barrow, M. V. Jr, Nature’s Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology (Chicago, 2009).Google Scholar
Farnham, T., Saving Nature’s Legacy: Origins of the Idea of Biological Diversity (New Haven, 2007).Google Scholar
Fullilove, C., The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture (Chicago, 2017).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hayden, C., When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico (Princeton, 2003).Google Scholar
Kloppenburg, J. R. Jr, First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, 1492–2000, 2nd edn (Madison, WI, 2004).Google Scholar
Pistorius, R. and Van Wijk, J., The Exploitation of Plant Genetic Information: Political Strategies in Crop Development (Wallingford, UK, 1999).Google Scholar

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