ANNUAL LEGUMES IN ROMANIA

Sărăţeanu Veronica (vera_s_vera@yahoo.com), Samfira Ionel, Moisuc Alexandru

Banat’s University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine from Timişoara, Calea Aradului

119, 300645 Timişoara, Romania

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Initial seed collection

• 9 populations of Vicia grandiflora (Lugojel, Caransebeş, Borlova, Timişoara – AVIASAN, Fibiş, Mănăştur, Zerveşti, Chizătău and Coştei);

• 1 population of Vicia sativa (Turnu Ruieni);• 1 population of Vicia angustifolia (Zerveşti);• 1 population of Lathyrus nissolia (Fibiş);• 1 population of Lathyrus tuberosus (Zerveşti);• 1 population of Vicia faba (Voiteg);• 1 population of Lens culinaris var. microsperma

(Timişoara).

Activities:

• Evaluation of some seeds features;• Cultivation in comparative plots as winter

crops and in spring;• Assessing of some biometrical and biological

features;• Multiplication and preservation;• Chemical analyses of plant and seeds;• Creation of a database of wild annual legumes

on the background of the vegetation survey owned by our team.

Lathyrus latifolius Lathyrus tuberosus

Vicia tenuifoliaLathyrus nissolia

Lathyrus pratensis