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PRESERVING BIODIVERSITY OF CULTIVATED VEGETABLE SPECIES IN CROATIA
Zdravko Matotan
orcid.org/0000-0002-9629-372X
; PODRAVKA d.d. 32, Ante Starčevića, Koprivnica, Croatia
Vesna Samobor
; College of Agriculture at Križevci, Križevci, Croatia
Renata Erhatić
; College of Agriculture at Križevci, Križevci, Croatia
Sažetak
Thanks to diverse climatic and soil conditions as a long tradition in vegetable growing in Croatia, numerous valuable eco-populations and domestic vegetable varieties have been created. Due to technological development in vegetable production, introduction of foreign hybrid varieties and degradation of domestic vegetable seed industry, a lot of Croatian vegetable gene stock are permanently lost and many are endangered. Aiming to preserve vegetable plant genetic resources and biodiversity over the last three years, seed of the most endangered Croatian domestic vegetable populations and varieties have been collected, and after valorization in the collection field at Križevci College of Agriculture will be prepared for long term conservation in the National Gene Bank. Collection of the seed from local domestic vegetable population by school children in the Koprivnica-Križevci County, as a pilot project acceptable in other parts of Croatia, was done during the spring 2007. The total amount of 9.536 samples from all parts of the county was collected.
In another project 94 populations of local kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala) from eastern Adriatic coastal region were collected and planted at the collection field of the Institute for Adriatic Crops and Karst Reclamation in Split. Description, characterization, valorization and regeneration were made during vegetation.
Preserving local vegetable populations is an important process for conservation of biodiversity and build-up of genetic material suitable for organic agriculture development.
Ključne riječi
vegetable; old varieties; eco population; preservation
Hrčak ID:
38044
URI
Datum izdavanja:
12.1.2009.
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