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Plant genetic resources of Lemnos (Greece), an isolated island in the Northern Aegean Sea, with emphasis on landraces

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Lemnos Island is located in the Northern Aegean Sea and presents a rich biodiversity in plant genetic resources including wild species and crop landraces. Landraces have been cultivated under traditional agricultural systems and many have survived genetic erosion. They are mainly conserved in home gardens or in small fields, usually by elderly people, and are limited to local consumption. Two collecting expeditions were organized in Lemnos, a minor one in 2009 and a larger one in 2010. The results of the two current expeditions are discussed and compared with previous expeditions in the island. An overview is given on the crops cultivated, the landraces collected and those considered as lost, alongside with some information about their traditional uses. Finally, the importance of landraces in modern agriculture and preservation policies in Lemnos are discussed.

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The authors would like to thank P. Ralli, Greek Gene Bank, Thessaloniki, and P. Lanaridis, Director of the Grapevine Institute of Athens, and K. Bladenopoulos, Cereal Institute of Thessaloniki, NAGREF for supplying data used in this study, Ivi Nanopoulou, Stefanos Dodouras, Giorgos Straftis and Anemoessa (Association for the Protection of the Environment and the Architectonic Legacy of Lemnos Island) for the hospitality and overall support for the 2010 expedition in Lemnos. Special thanks also to the agronomists of the local Agricultural Office, Ch. Hatzoglou, Th. Karanikolas and N. Karamalis, the Agricultural Association of Lemnos, Charalambos Arvanitidis, Maria Chalka, the veteran agronomist A. Kountouras and to all the Lemnians who unsparingly helped in the investigation. Imke Thormann (Bioversity International, Rome) provided copies of IBPGR-supported collecting mission reports. Professor Arne Strid (Denmark) kindly sent us a list of wild plant taxa of Lemnos from the Flora Hellenica Database, Nigel Maxted (Birmingham, UK) and Richard Snowball (Australian Trifolium Genetic Resource Centre) provided information from the Australian 1998 collection. Erika Maul (Siebeldingen, Germany) sent copies of rare papers on grape. Finally we would like to thank Karl Hammer (Gatersleben) for critically reading an earlier version of the manuscript.

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    Konstantinos Thomas & Penelope J. Bebeli

  2. Farm Unit, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 11855, Athens, Greece

    Ricos Thanopoulos

  3. Genebank Department, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstr. 3, 06466, Gatersleben, Germany

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Thomas, K., Thanopoulos, R., Knüpffer, H. et al. Plant genetic resources of Lemnos (Greece), an isolated island in the Northern Aegean Sea, with emphasis on landraces. Genet Resour Crop Evol 59, 1417–1440 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-011-9770-x

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