Abstract
The situation of plant genetic resources in southwestern Georgia is illustrated using the material from a 2010 collecting mission of the Tbilisi Botanical Garden and Institute of Botany and the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, after having finished seed reproduction and plant characterization. Despite increased genetic erosion in the region, especially in field crops, 295 accessions of local cereals, vegetables, pulses, spices and medicinal plants could be collected. Variable landraces of winter annual Triticum aestivum L. are still cultivated in several villages of Mescheti, comprising up to six different morphological varieties. Relic crops, such as Linum usitatissimum L. in Džavacheti and Pisum sativum L., Glycine max (L.) Merr. or Brassica oleracea L. var. viridis L. in Atcara could be collected. A tremendous variability of Phaseolus vulgaris L. is grown in the whole area as the main pulse crop.
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