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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/19819| Title: | Collecting crop genetic resources in the Mediterranean agricultural islands : Maltese archipelago |
| Authors: | Laghetti, Gaetano Perrino, Pietro Cifarelli, Salvatore Scicluna-Spiteri, Anthony Attard, Everaldo Hammer, Karl |
| Keywords: | Agrobiodiversity Agrobiodiversity -- Malta Germplasm resources, Plant -- Collection and preservation Erosion |
| Issue Date: | 2004-01-01 |
| Publisher: | IPGRI/FAO |
| Citation: | Laghetti, G., Perrino, P., Cifarelli, S., Scicluna-Spiteri, A., Attard, E., & Hammer, K. (2004). Collecting crop genetic resources in the Mediterranean agricultural islands: Maltese archipelago. Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter, 139, 1-16. |
| Abstract: | This collecting mission in Maltese archipelago opens a new exploration cycle aimed to safeguard autochthonous crop genetic resources still present in Mediterranean (not Italian) islands. This new research is the sequel to that one carried out in Italian small islands ended in 2002. Maltese agriculture is an economic activity of low importance, mainly due to the small extension of arable land and scarcity of water resources. In this first and preliminary expedition 32 valuable landraces were collected belonging to 19 species of pulses, vegetables, cereals, forages, industrial plants, spices and condiments. In general a strong crop genetic erosion was observed but, on the island of Gozo this phenomenon was less severe. The building of a local genebank might certainly help to stop this trend. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/19819 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - InsESRSF |
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