Seeds of Tradition, Seeds of Future
Subtitle: Folk Rice Varieties of Eastern India
Publisher: Research Foundation for Science Technology & Ecology
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Delhi, India
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 136
Description: This is a revised edition of Folk Rice varieties of West Bengal (2000) by the same author. Copyrighted in the name of indigenous farmers' consortium Vrihi.
Table of contents: label: Why this publication
title: 1; label: The Origin, Biology and Ecology of Indian Rice
title: 3; label: Setting the Context: The erosion of Folk Crop Genetic Diversity
title: 6; label: Concerns for Rice Genetic Divefrsity Conservation
title: 8; label: Documentation of Folk Rice Varieties of Eastern India
title: 11; label: Materials and Methods
title: 14; label: Salient Findings
title: 84; label: Conclusion
title: 95; label: References
title: 97; label: Acknowledgements
title: 102; label: Table 1: Selected physiological and agronomic traits and uses of 416 rice landraces
title: 18; label: Table 2: Key morphological characteristics of 416 rice landraces
title: 40; label: Table 3: Yield statistics of selected folk rice varieties compared with a modern HYV
title: 89; label: Table 4: Brown rice length (BL) and width (BW) variations in Jugal and Sateen
title: 90; label: Table 5: Landraces with novel pigmentation of lemma-palea, apiculus and seed coat
title: 91; label: Appendix 1: List of farmers donating folk rice varieties to Vrihi
title: 103; label: Appendix 2: List of farmers receiving folk rice variety seeds from Vrihi
title: 121