2000-2004 activity report on wild sunflowers research in Argentina

MÓNICA POVERENE; MIGUEL CANTAMUTTO; ALICIA CARRERA; SOLEDAD URETA; VIRGINIA ALONSO ROLDÁN; ALVAREZ D.; PRESOTTO A.; GUTIÉRREZ A.; JESSICA BASUALDO; LUIS S.; HERNÁNDEZ A.

Conferencia; Conference of the European System Cooperative Research Networks in Agriculture; 2005

Since 2000 a research is in progress on wild sunflowers in Argentina,comprising naturalized H. annuus and H. petiolaris populations, and theirrelationship with cultivated sunflower. The study includes morphological, phenological, biochemical and molecular aspects, addressed to explain dispersaland adaptive processes and gene flow within sunflower crop. We present here asummary of results obtained during the last five years.