Darwinian Agriculture: how understanding evolution can improve agriculture R.Ford Denison 2012. Princeton University Press
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Darwinian Agriculture: how understanding evolution can improve agriculture R. Ford Denison 2012. Princeton University Press
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عنوان ژورنال: Evolutionary Applications
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1752-4571
DOI: 10.1111/eva.12029