Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Role of pasture and forage legumes in mediterranean farming systems.- 2. Reproductive strategies and genetic structure of wild and naturalised legume populations.- 3. Reasons for collecting wild plants.- 4. Using collections to describe ecological relationships.- 5. Ecogeography and genetic conservation.- 6. Genetic erosion of pasture and forage legumes in the Mediterranean basin.- 7. Sampling wild legume populations.- 8. The need to collect new pasture and forage species.- 9. The host-rhizobia relationship.- 10. The agronomic purpose of evaluation: Relating nurseries to field situations.- 11. Evaluation of the feeding value of pasture legumes.- 12. The influence of storage conditions on seed viability.- 13. The characterisation and preliminary evaluation of Medicago and Trifolium germplasm.- 14. Plant genetic resources programme in Turkey with special reference to forage legumes.- 15. Forage and pasture legume genetic resources at ICARDA.- 16. From free access to fair trade: Political dimensions of collecting in situ plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA).- 17. A generic conspectus of the forage legumes of the Mediterranean basin.- 18. Conservation and utilisation of agricultural diversity in Greece. Current status and perspectives.- 19. Conserving plant genetic resources in Cyprus.- 20. Observations on the distribution and ecology of annual Medicago species in northern Tunisia.

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