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Journal Article

Agrobiodiversity and Genetic Erosion of Crop Varieties and Plant Resources in the Central Great Caucasus  [2017]

Akhalkatsi, M.; A. Otte; G. Arabuli; L. Mazanishvili; et al.

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Kazbegi Municipality is located in the Central Great Caucasus at an altitude between 1250 and 5047 m a.s.l. Agriculture of this area is extreme internal variability and complexity, with a multiplicity of highly localized providing the habitats and agricultural lands for much genetic erosion of crop varieties, animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for wild plant resources. Historically, Kazbegi producers had begun cultivating the land to prepare for planting in of distribution local varieties of wheat, barley, rye, oats, etc. In the only cereals, legumes, herbs and some fruits are cultivated in alpine zone as the upper limit till the location of 2160 m a.s.l. Genetic erosion has been determined historically of aboriginal crops from sheep and cattle grazing problem and reached extreme levels from 1970s in Kazbegi Municipality and causes a problem to maintain agriculture. Plant resources remained in forests and subalpine grasslands and shrub lands. The problems of these materials are habitat degradation by disturbance in many forest types with destroyed and burned. Tree seedlings are grazing by animals and forest is not restoring naturally. Forest planting is good relation for restoration of plant wild species resources. Investigation on exchange on mountain agriculture and plant resources will now be rapidly accelerated in the vital interests of mountain communities.
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Annals of Agrarian Science
ISSN : 1512-1887

Bibliographic information

Language:
English
Type:
Journal Article
In AGRIS since:
2017
Volume:
2017,
Start Page:
.
Publisher:
Elsevier B.V.
All titles:
"Agrobiodiversity and Genetic Erosion of Crop Varieties and Plant Resources in the Central Great Caucasus"@eng
Other:
"Pre-press version"
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Bibliographic information

Language:
English
Type:
Journal Article
In AGRIS since:
2017
Volume:
2017,
Start Page:
.
Publisher:
Elsevier B.V.
All titles:
"Agrobiodiversity and Genetic Erosion of Crop Varieties and Plant Resources in the Central Great Caucasus"@eng
Other:
"Pre-press version"