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Deforestation and Shrinking Crop Gene-pools in Amazonia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Nigel J.H. Smith and
Richard Evans Schultes
Nigel J.H. Smith
Affiliation:
Professor, Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
Richard Evans Schultes
Affiliation:
Jeffrey Professor of Biology and Director (Emeritus), Botanical Museum of Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
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Deforestation in Amazonia is eliminating wild genepools of many crop-plants. Wild or spontaneous populations of at least 50 perennial crops are at risk, including the Rubber tree and Cacao, as well as several crops emerging from relative obscurity, such as Peach-palm (which is now being planted extensively for palmito production), Annatto (which produces a natural red dye), and Brazil-nut.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1990, pp. 227 - 234
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1990

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