Among cereal crops, wheat has been identified as a major source for human food consumption. Wheat breeders require access to new genetic diversity resources satisfy the demands of growing population more with high quality that can be produced in variable environmental conditions. The close relatives domesticated wheats represent an ideal gene pool use breeders. genera Aegilops and Triticum are ...

Discussion of the phylogenetic relations between Plesippus, Allohippus, and Equus. Descriptions illustrations 30 Equid extant fossil species younger than 2 Ma. Particular attention is given to slender forms with short protocones usually referred ‘Equus altidens’ from Süssenborn Untermassfeld (Germany), Akhalkalaki Dmanisi (Georgia), Pirro (Italy), Venta Micena (Spain) Aïn Hanech (Algeria). Occu...

Collecting expeditions are of prime importance to acquire genetically unique material, as for many crops and their wild relatives, large gaps present in collections worldwide. This is also true the three species Allium ampeloprasum complex, native Greece, which considered crop relatives cultivated leek ( ). Therefore, a collecting expedition was carried out Greece 2009. A total 62 populations A...