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‘Altreier Kaffee’: Lupinus pilosus L. cultivated as coffee substitute in Northern Italy (Alto Adige/Südtirol)

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The continued cultivation of Lupinus pilosus L. as an endemic coffee substitute in the mountain village of Altrei, South Tyrol, located in the Val di Fiemme/Fleimstal valley ca. 24 km south of Bolzano/Bozen, since the middle of the nineteenth century is demonstrable. Former reports of cultivation of Lupinus cosentinii Guss. and L. varius auct., non L. for this purpose in Tyrol could refer to L. pilosus as well. The cultural history of the rare crop is summarized up to its recent revival.

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The oral history research on the local knowledge was conducted and financed by the Interreg III-B project ‘NeProValter’, contracting body: Autonome Provinz Bozen Südtirol/Italy, Abteilung 22 für Land-, forst- und hauswirtschaftliche Berufsbildung. The seeds of the ‘Altreier Kaffee’ were multiplied for the recultivation project by Theresia Werth and Wolfgang Lochmann in Altrei. Many thanks to G. Bonafaccia (Rome, INRAN) for his unpublished alkaloid contents in L. pilosus ‘Altreier Kaffee’, to G. Peratoner (Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry Laimburg) for translations, to the curator of the Herbarium Bozen (BOZ) for the loan from the collection of the Naturmuseum Südtirol as well as to Th. Gladis, Sangerhausen, and P. Hanelt, Gatersleben, for valuable advices and A. Diederichsen, Saskatoon, for language check.

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    Andrea Heistinger

  2. Department of Genebank, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstr. 3, 06466, Gatersleben, Germany

    Klaus Pistrick

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Heistinger, A., Pistrick, K. ‘Altreier Kaffee’: Lupinus pilosus L. cultivated as coffee substitute in Northern Italy (Alto Adige/Südtirol). Genet Resour Crop Evol 54, 1623–1630 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-007-9265-y

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