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ative techniques and medications contained in this book. In every individual case the user must check such information by consulting the relevant literature. Camera ready by author Cover design: E. Kirchner, Heidelberg Printed on acid-free paper SPIN 10865355 30/314I/as 543210 8 Costs of Conservation of Agrobiodiversity in India Sanjeev Saxena, Vikas Chandak, Shrabani B. Ghosh, Riya Sinha, Neeru Jain and Anil K. Gupta Introduction Plant germplasm is a nonrenewable natural resource indispensable for the sustenance of human life on this earth. The story of human civilization is actually also a story of plant domestication and gender role differentiation. It is said that only after domestication did the role of women start to become more and more differentiated. Women have played the most pivotal role in the selection, storage and in situ conservation of landraces. It is important to appreciate that studies on the cost of conservation also capture, in that sense, the hidden and unapp

Abstract The new legally binding "International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture" (ITPGR) provides a framework to ensure access to crop genetic resources and to related knowledge, technologies, and internationally agreed funding. However, this treaty applies

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Cavatassi and Lipper are economists with the Food and Agriculture Organization, and

, is able to find much better spread of solutions and better convergence near the true Pareto-optimal front compared to PAES and SPEA - two other elitist multi-objective EAs which pay special attention towards creating a diverse Pareto-optimal front. Moreover, we modify the definition of dominance in order

to find much better spread of solutions in all problems compared to PAES---another elitist multi-objective EA which pays special attention towards creating a diverse Pareto-optimal front. Because of NSGA-II's low computational requirements, elitist approach, and parameter-less sharing approach

Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis profiles of 16S rRNA-defined populations inhabiting a hot spring microbial mat community.