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Plant germplasm is a nonrenewable natural resource indispensable for the sustenance of human life on this earth. The story of human civilization is actually also a story of plant domestication and gender role differentiation. It is said that only after domestication did the role of women start to become more and more differentiated. Women have played the most pivotal role in the selection, storage and in situ conservation of landraces. It is important to appreciate that studies on the cost of conservation also capture, in that sense, the hidden and unappreciated contribution women have made in this gigantic task. In this contribution we will not be able to deal with this issue in detail, because we are focusing essentially on the components contributing to the cost of ex situ conservation.
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Saxena, S., Chandak, V., Ghosh, S.B., Sinha, R., Jain, N., Gupta, A.K. (2003). Costs of Conservation of Agrobiodiversity in India. In: Virchow, D. (eds) Efficient Conservation Of Crop Genetic Diversity. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05212-9_8
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