ECPGR Allium Working Group meeting

Seventh meeting of the ECPGR Allium Working Group, Perea, Thessaloniki, Greece, 6-8 September 2011

• The hosting and management of the European Allium Database will be transferred from the University of Warwick to  IPK Gatersleben from January 2012
• The group agreed on a workplan to establish European Accessions for seed-propagated landraces and wild taxa, as well as cultivars, starting with A. ampeloprasum and then extending the list to other priority groups of seed-propagated species
• Considering the need to update information on conservation status of Allium landraces and report this to the national programmes, a subgroup will be established by end of December 2011 to carry out this task
• Black-box safety storage of seeds was offered by four institutions
• The EU Agri Genres 50 EURALLIVEG project on garlic and shallot was concluded in March 2011: 202 well-characterized garlic accessions are now stored and safety-duplicated in cryopreservation in CRI, Czech Republic, IPK, Germany and RIVC, Poland
• A list of 202 candidate European garlic accessions will be sent by end of 2011 to the National Coordinators for flagging them as European Accessions in EURISCO
• The need to establish a new project on garlic characterization by molecular markers was underlined. A letter  will be sent to the European crop genebanks asking for their interest in collaboration
• An AEGIS project was successfully concluded to adopt the cryopreservation of young garlic inflorescences as usable methods for European cryobanks
• The group representatives expressed their heartfelt thanks to Dave Astley for his preparatory input to establish the Allium Working Group and for his continuing leadership for altogether 29 years!
• J. Keller (Germany) and T. Kotliń ska (Poland) were elected as new Chair and Vice-Chair, respectively.

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