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Wheat Information Service
Number 72: 70-73 (1991)


Field research of wheat, barley and their wild relatives in southern Italy and Greece, 1990

Y. Furuta and S. Ohta

Laboratory of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Gifu University, Gifu 501-11, Japan and Plant Germ-plasm Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Muko 617, Japan


A field research work was carried out in the most southern part of Italian Peninsula and Sicily Island, Italy and two islands (Karapathos and Naxos) in Aegean Sea, the nothern part of Peloponnisos Peninsula and the area of loanina, northwest part of Greece. This mission was the first year's project on the comparative ecological genetics on phylogeny of wheat, barley and their wild relatives in northeastern region of the Mediterranean Sea. This project was sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Japan (Grant-in-Aid for International Scientific Research Program: Field Research No. 02041037, 1990-1993).

The route and the actual schedule of the present mission is shown in Table 1 and Fig. 1. Table 2 is a summalysed list of the collection. We showed about 80 beautiful color slides showing the agriculture, the geological features, the life of people in addition to the habitats or field and some spikes or plants of wheat, barley and their relatives in the Italy and Greece. The present researchers will visit YugosIvia as the second year's (1991) plan. After this project completely finish, the whole story will be reported elsewhere.

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