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Table 85 Microgenic Centres and Common Species in Türkiye (Şehirali et al., 2005).
MICROGEN CENTRE COMMON SPECIES

Bread Wheat, Durum Wheat, Geranium dissectum Wheat,
Thrace-Aegean Topbaş Wheat, Kaplıca Wheat, Spelt Wheat, Coarse Grain, Melon, Lentil,
Chickpea, Common Vetch, Lupins, Combs.
Kaplıca, Emmer Wheat, Durum Wheat, Marrow, Water Melon, Melon,
South-Eastern Anatolia
Cucumber, Vine, Bean, Lentil, Chickpea, Broad Beans, Fodder Crops.
Amasya Fruit Types and Species, Beans, Lentils, Broad Beans, Legume
Samsun -Tokat- Amasya
Forage Crops.
Apple, Almond, Pear, Fruit Species, Vine, Lentil, Chickpea, Clover, Sa-
Kayseri and Neighbourhood
infoin.
Agri and Neighbourhood Apple, Apricot, Sour Cherry, Cherry, Melon, Legume, Forage Crops.

The Mediterranean region is the richest region in terms of endemic species, followed by Eastern
and Central Anatolia, Black Sea, Aegean, Marmara and Southeastern Anatolia.

Table 86 Distribution of Endemic Species in the Flora of Türkiye by Regions (Eken et al., 2006).
REGIONS No. of ENDEMICS

Mediterranean Region 862
Aegean Region 171
Eastern Anatolia Region 471

Marmara Region 102
Central Anatolia Region 335

Southeastern Anatolia Region 64
Black Sea Region 277
Total 2,282*

* The remaining endemic species are distributed in more than one geographical region.

The total number of cereal varieties developed and registered by the public sector in Türkiye
over the last three decades using local and imported inbreds is 333, of which 150 are wheat, 28
maize, 35 maize lines, 50 barley, 44 rice, 16 sorghum, 8 oats and 1 rye variety. While the National
Seed Programme is constantly breeding new varieties and thus the number of cultivated spe-
cies is steadily increasing, field crops such as small red wheat (Triticum monococcum), double
grain wheat (Triticum dicoccum), bitter vetch and lupin are not used as much as they used to be.
Therefore, these species have started to disappear. Türkiye has been participating in the meetin-
gs of the Conference of the Parties as a country party since 1998. Within the scope of Article 17 of
the Convention, a clearing house mechanism has been established at http://biodiversity.gov.tr/
for the exchange of information at national and international level.

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