The University of Birmingham and the Aegean Agricultural Research Institute have commenced a collaborative programme of Plant Genetic Resources Conservation training. This has for the last two years taken the form of joint Conservation Field Course to Western Turkey. The results of the 1995 field course are presented here for various leguminous, graminaceous and umbelliferous crop relatives groups. The project involved six pairs of students, each working on a genus or group of genera, and was jointly supervised by AAJRI and University of Birmingham staff. For each target group field observations were made and voucher specimens were collected. All collected information and specimens have been deposited at AARI.