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Ecosystem Services of Crop Wild Relatives

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Agricultural sustainability will, increasingly, in the course of time, depend on using crop wild relatives to combat the ravages of global warming.

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    Kodoth Prabhakaran Nair (International Agricultural Scientist)

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Nair, K.P. (2019). Ecosystem Services of Crop Wild Relatives. In: Combating Global Warming . Springer Climate. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23037-1_15

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