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Collecting plant‐genetic resources in Georgia (South Ossetia, Dzhavakheti) 1990
Author(s) -
Beridze R. K.,
Hanelt P.,
Girgvliani T. S.,
Kandelaki V. N.,
Mandžgaladze D.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
feddes repertorium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1522-239X
pISSN - 0014-8962
DOI - 10.1002/fedr.19921030708
Subject(s) - phaseolus , indigenous , crop , biology , genetic resources , geography , cultivated plant taxonomy , agroforestry , taxon , agronomy , botany , ecology , microbiology and biotechnology
In the summer of 1990 a tenth and last joint field mission has been organized to study indigenous material of cultivated plants in Georgia. The mission went to the South Ossetian Autonomous Region and to the historical province of Dzhavakheti in South Georgia. Severe gene‐erosion caused by several factors led to a drastic decrease of the former broad variability of cultivated crops and their local infraspecific forms. This process culminated in the fifties and is especially true for cereals and indigenous grain legumes as in other regions of Georgia. Therefore the few collected accessions of these taxa are the most valuable ones of the material. The collection comprises altogether 140 accessions of cereals, legumes as well as vegetable and spice plants. Most numerous are as usual the garden beans, Phaseolus vulgaris , from which 17 different seed variants could be detected mainly from the Ossetian local races of this crop. Wild plants do play a considerable role in the daily diet especially in the high‐mountain villages.