Journal of Biology and Life Science ISSN 2157-6076 2013, Vol. 4, No. 1 Survey for The Conservation of Agrobiodiversity in Three Italian Linguistic (Occitan, Croatian and Franco-Provençal) Islands. Gaetano Laghetti (Corresponding author) CNR – Institute of Plant Genetics, Bari, Italy Tel: 00-39-80-5583400 E-mail:
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[email protected] Received: July 29, 2012 Accepted: August 11, 2012 doi:10.5296/jbls.v4i1.2147 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jbls.v4i1.2147 Abstract This study is a continuation of a research started in 1996 to study and safeguard the agrobiodiversity in Italian linguistic islands by the Institute of Plant Genetics of the C.N.R. of Bari (Italy) and the Institute of Crop Science of Kassel University (Germany). In 2011 additional three collecting missions were carried out in the Franco-Provençal, Croatian, and Occitan linguistic areas.