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TL;DR: Factors that shaped species diversity in the wild progenitors of chickpea are identified, and wild introgression populations are produced that increase diversity for breeding by ~100-fold, including traits of agronomic relevance.

TL;DR: A global-level hierarchical sampling scheme is used to comprehensively characterize the evolutionary relationships and distributional limitations of the nitrogen-fixing bacterial symbionts of the crop chickpea, finding that diverse Mesorhizobium taxa perform symbiosis with chickPEa and have largely overlapping global distributions.

TL;DR: Germination was slightly affected by photoperiods, which suggests that seeds are slightly photoblastic, and the germination ability of both plant species under wide range of environmental conditions suggests further invasion potential towards non-infested areas in Turkey.

TL;DR: Both weeds have considerable potential to further expand their ranges in semi-arid regions of Turkey and are predicted that P. philadelphica will be more problematic under optimal water supply and high salinity while P. angulata can better adapt water limited environments.

TL;DR: Surveys for determining alternative host plants of Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) in the Southeast Anatolia Region of Turkey were carried out in open fields of tomato growing areas between the years of 2011 and 2012 and plants of four different families including Solanacaeae, Amaranthaceae, Asteraceae and Poaceae have been identified.