Vicia Taxa in the Flora of Turkey

Abstract

With the help of this compilation work, approximately, 122 taxa, 66 species, 27 subspecies and 29 varieties of Vicia genus have been identified in Turkey. There are 11 endemic species of the Vetch taxa in Turkey. Among existing Vetch taxa, it has been identified that seventy six taxa are annual, twenty six are perennial, six are annual or biennial, five are annual or perennial, one is biennial or perennial and one is biennial. In terms of chromosome numbers of taxa, it has been found that; 44 taxa consist of 14 chromosomes, 14 have 12 chromosomes, 5 have 10 chromosomes and one taxa has 28 chromosomes. Besides, we found that 19 taxa have more than one chromosome numbers. The first three of the most common species according to the provinces where they have been found are Vicia cracca L. subsp. stenophylla Vel. (31 provinces), V. speregrina L. and V. sativa L. subsp. nigra (L.) Ehrh. (28 provinces).

Revealing Seed Coat Colour Variation and Their Possible Association with Seed Yield Parameters in Common Vetch (Vicia sativaL.)

“…The genus Vicia is very important not only for providing low cost animal forage and grain species of food but also for their contribution to organic biomass and nitrogen to soil in a plant rotation system [1,2]. Vicia species is widespread especially in the temperate zones of both hemispheres [3,4] and the center of diversity for subgenus Vicia is shown as the Northeastern Mediterranean, including Iraq, Iran, the Southwestern Republics of the former Soviet Union, Syria, and Turkey [5]. Annual common vetch (Vicia sativa ssp.…”

Sequence-related amplified polymorphism and inter-simple sequence repeat marker-based genetic diversity and nuclear DNA content variation in common vetch (Vicia sativaL.)

“…Forage species of Vicia genus have an invaluable importance not only for providing low-cost animal feeds but also they contribute to organic biomass and nitrogen to soil (Yeh et al, 1997;Avcioglu, 2000). Although Vicia species are widespread in the temperate zones of both the hemispheres, it is especially common in the Mediterranean and Middle East (Frediani et al, 2005;Başbag et al, 2013). The centre of diversity and the possible origin for the subgenus Vicia are the Northeastern Mediterranean, including Iraq, Iran, the Southwestern Republics of the former Soviet Union, Syria and Turkey (Maxted, 1995).…”