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Wheat Information Service
Number 70: 15 - 28 (1990)

II . Record

The plant expedition research from south eastern anatolia (Atatork dam) C7 square

Muzaffer Kiziltan1, Alptekin Karagoz2 and J . Giles Waines3

1. TORITAK - Tarim ve Orimancilik Arastirma Grubu, Ankara, Turkey
2. TOKB - Tarla Bitkileri Merkez Aras. Enst. Lodumlu/Ankara, Turkey
3. University of California Riverside, Department of Botany and Science CA 92521, USA

During the 1987 Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Affairs has organized scientific expedition including field and forage crops. The expedition, most of the important areas for the studies on origin of wheat and its relatives in Turkey have been explored. The area of the present project are the remaining very important places for the survey of wheat and Aegilops.

The present program have be carried out under co-operation with FAO and respective Govermental organization.

The party leaved around June 6 and return June 20, 1987. Detailed schedule will be arranged to the local situation.

The list published in this research contains 82 species records for C7 which were collected from the different villages of county, Center, Kahta, Samsat, Gerger, Silverek, Hilvan and Bozova in Adiyaman and Urfa provinces. 42 new species records for C7 square. The new grid system of Davis.



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