title: Effective conservation of <i>Medicago</i> crop wild relatives in Russia and neighbouring countries: gap analysis points the way forward.
abstract: The objectives of this study were to focus on cultivated Medicago species and their crop wild relatives (CWR) which occur throughout the region of the Former Soviet Union (FSU). The area includes the Russian Federation, the countries of Estonia, Latvia, Belarus and Ukraine in eastern Europe, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Caucasus region, and Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan in south-central Asia. A gap analysis was conducted to:(i) determine if these taxa 
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