November 27, 2009
Vavilov says that Stipa tenacissima, which he calls alfa grass, “is utilized only in a wild condition”. It isn’t clear whether he is referring only to Morocco, because in Spain it certainly was cultivated. A proposal for a plant micro-reserve in Valencia mentions the traditional cultivation of Stipa tenacissima as having been responsible for the [...]
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November 9, 2009
Vavilov had clearly been strongly influenced by his host in Algeria when he wrote that “Here it is to some extent possible to solve the riddle of the origin of some cultivated plants. It was just here that Trabut found the interesting wild bean mentioned above, Vicia pliniana (Trabut) Muratova, which undoubtedly is genetically especially [...]
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