Citation:

19 Jan Salick, Laura C Merrick. 1990. Use and maintenance of genetic resources: crops and their wild relatives. Pages 517-548. In: C Ronald Carroll, John H Vandermeer, Peter Rosset (editors). Agroecology. McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, New York, 641 pages.

Keywords: population genetics of crops, population ecology of crops, crop genetics and people, changes in plants with domestication, possible pathways of the spread of tomato from Peru, current changes in genetic resources, comparison of genetic resources in traditional and modern commercial cultivation of cassava, squash, production or crisis?, conservation of crop genetic resources, centralized conservation, habitat conservation and community-based conservation, centers of diversity and sustainable agriculture, corn or maize