Promising forage grasses of the Magadan Region (based on the results of the collecting mission of 2025)

Natural meadows provide a source for hay production in the northern Far East. Therefore, studying wild forage grasses as an important component of the region's plant genetic resources is becoming a pressing issue. This paper summarizes data on the most promising forage grasses in the Magadan Region; it presents collecting sites and descriptions of the species' locations identified and explored during a collecting mission conducted in 2025 by the National Center for Plant Genetic Resources of the Russian Federation. The collecting mission yielded 39 samples of 26 species of wild relatives of forage grasses growing in various natural and climatic zones of the Magadan Region. Of these, 18 species are native to the region, while eight are alien. Native species adapted to the extreme natural and climatic conditions of the northern Far East deserve special attention. This group includes Poa sibirica Roshev. and Alopecurus alpinus Sm., which are rare in the region's natural biotopes and sensitive to anthropogenic impact. It is recommended to monitor the population status of these species and, if necessary, preserve their genetic material both in gene banks ( ex situ ) and in their natural environment ( in situ ).