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Legume Diversity in the Mediterranean Region

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Plant Genetic Resources of Legumes in the Mediterranean

Part of the book series: Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture ((PSBA,volume 39))

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The Mediterranean has one of the richest floras of the world. It contains some 25,000 species, including a high percentage of endemic species, and it is the centre of diversity for many socio-economically important species (temperate cereals, legumes, olives, vines and salad vegetables fruit trees) and their secondary and tertiary gene pools. There are several hypotheses to explain the floral abundance of the region: it is set at the cusp of three continents and three distinct floras (Euro-Siberian, Mediterranean and Irano-Turanian); it is deeply dissected, with peninsulas, extensive mountain ranges and numerous islands (Heywood, 1995; Akeroyd, 1999), which has led to reproductive isolation of populations and evolutionary divergence. Stebbins (1967) points out that if areas with different environmental and floristic characters are juxtaposed, it may act as a catalyst to evolution. Many temperate legume genera would appear to be a good examples of taxa to have evolved in such an evolutionary “melting pot”.

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Maxted, N., Bennett, S.J. (2001). Legume Diversity in the Mediterranean Region. In: Maxted, N., Bennett, S.J. (eds) Plant Genetic Resources of Legumes in the Mediterranean. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, vol 39. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9823-1_3

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