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November2022

Agrobiodiversity

AGROVOC URI
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_37977

FAO/Ny You

Agricultural biodiversity is a broad term that includes all components of biological diversity of relevance to food and agriculture, and all components of biological diversity that constitute the agricultural ecosystems, also named agro-ecosystems: the variety and variability of animals, plants and micro-organisms, at the genetic, species and ecosystem levels, which are necessary to sustain key functions of the agro-ecosystem, its structure and processes.

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    The safe conservation and exchange of germplasm requires seeds free of pests and diseases that are of quarantine risk. Seed...

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    Functional foods

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    Colluvium

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    Seedling emergence

    Seedling emergence is one of the most important phenological event that influences the success of an annual plant. Emergence represents...