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NALT Concept Space
U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Concept information

  1. Research, Technology, Methods
  2. genetic resources
  3. varieties
  4. landraces
  1. Natural Resources, Conservation, Environment
  2. natural resources
  3. biological resources
  4. genetic resources
  5. varieties
  6. landraces

Preferred term

landraces

Type

  • Topic

Definition

  • Information Traditional crop cultivars or animal breeds with enough genetic integrity to be morphologically identifiable that evolved with or have been genetically improved by traditional agriculturalists.

    Source: NAL Thesaurus Staff

    Type: Concept definition

Broader concept

Synonyms

  • farmer variety
  • folk variety
  • landrace cultivars
  • primitive cultivars
  • traditional variety

In other languages

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/49175

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