Table 1.
Geographical origin of the 346 M truncatula inbred lines used
| Geographical origin | Number of lines from SARDI collection | Number of lines (# populations) from the INRA-Montpellier collection |
| North Africa | ||
| Algeria | 18 | 80 (43) |
| Tunisia | 21 | - |
| Morocco | 20 | - |
| Libya | 9 | - |
| Madeira | 1 | - |
| South-Western Europe | ||
| Spain | 2 | 58 (37) |
| Portugal | 6 | 9 (5) |
| France | 3 | 41 (26)1 |
| Southern Europe | ||
| Italy | 11 | - |
| Greece | 9 | 20 (15)2 |
| Turkey | 3 | - |
| Middle East | ||
| Israel | 5 | - |
| Syria | 2 | - |
| Jordan | 2 | - |
| Cyprus | 12 | - |
| Other | ||
| Australia | 3 | - |
| South Africa | 2 | - |
| Romania | 1 | - |
| Cultivated populations | 8 (7)3 | |
| Total | 130 | 216 |
Populations from the SARDI (AMGRC) collection were represented by a single individual.
1 among these 26 populations, 14 were collected in Corsica.
2 among these 15 populations 4 were collected in Crete.
3 the cultivated populations are: Borung, Caliph, Cyprus, Jemalong, Mogul, Paraggio and Sephi (we used 1 line per population except for Cyprus which was represented by 2 lines).