Genetic Resources of Mediterranean Pasture and Forage Legumes

by Bennett, Sarita Jane; Cocks, P. S.

• ISBN13: 9780792355229
• ISBN10: 0792355229
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Genetic Resources of Mediterranean Pasture and Forage Legumes is a comprehensive review of grassland improvement in Mediterranean areas using legume species. The book includes a detailed account of the processes involved in understanding the ecology of legumes and their collection in the Mediterranean, through to their preliminary evaluation and storage at various Genetic Resource Centres. A generic conspectus and key to the forage legumes of the Mediterranean basin is also included. These proceedings are truly international with examples on the collection and use of Mediterranean genetic resources being illustrated by Genetic Resource Centres in Australia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Syria, Turkey and Tunisia. Current important issues such as the sustainability of Mediterranean grasslands, the risk of genetic erosion and the principles of population genetics employed during a collecting mission are discussed. The book will be of value to researchers working in the fields of grassland and rangeland improvement, Mediterranean farming systems, genetic resources, and pasture and forage ecology.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Role of pasture and forage legumes in mediterranean farming systems	9	(20)
P.S. Cocks
Sarita Jane Bennett
Reproductive strategies and genetic structure of wild and naturalised legume populations	20	(12)
P.S. Cocks
Reasons for collecting wild plants	32	(9)
Robert Reid
Sarita Jane Bennett
Using collections to describe ecological relationships	41	(12)
Sarita Jane Bennett
Ecogeography and genetic conservation	53	(14)
Nigel Maxted
Genetic erosion of pasture and forage legumes in the Mediterranean basin	67	(11)
Larry D. Robertson
Mustapha Bounejmate
Sampling wild legume populations	78	(12)
D.R. Marshall
A.H.D. Brown
The need to collect new pasture and forage species	90	(6)
C.M. Francis
The host-rhizobia relationship	96	(11)
J.G. Howieson
The agronomic purpose of evaluation: Relating nurseries to field situations	107	(13)
Pier Paolo Roggero
Claudio Porqueddu
Evaluation of the feeding value of pasture legumes	120	(12)
S.K. Baker
R.A. Dynes
The influence of storage conditions on seed viability	132	(9)
E.H. Roberts
The characterisation and preliminary evaluation of Medicago and Trifolium germplasm	141	(9)
G.C. Auricht
J.M. Prosperi
R. Snowball
S.J. Hughes
Plant genetic resources programme in Turkey with special reference to forage legumes	150	(13)
Cafer Olcayto Sabanci
Forage and pasture legume genetic resources at ICARDA	163	(8)
M. Bounejmate
G. Gintzburger
S. Christiansen
L.D. Robertson
A. Abd El Moneim
J. Konopka
From free access to fair trade: Political dimensions of collecting in situ plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA)	171	(11)
Heather Paull
A generic conspectus of the forage legumes of the Mediterranean basin	182	(45)
Katherine Woodgate
Nigel Maxted
Sarita Jane Bennett
Conservation and utilisation of agricultural diversity in Greece. Current status and perspectives	227	(4)
S. Samaras
N. Stavropoulos
A. Mattheou
Conserving plant genetic resources in Cyprus	231	(4)
A. Della
Observations on the distribution and ecology of annual Medicago species in northern Tunisia	235	(4)
Aziza Zoghlami
H. Hassen
Index	239