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Differentiation and structure of an Italian landrace of celery (Apium graveolens L.): inferences for on farm conservation

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The “Sedano Nero di Trevi” (Black Celery from Trevi) is a landrace grown in Umbria (Italy) at risk of extinction. A morpho-physiological and molecular characterisation of the landrace and a detailed investigation of its cultural and cultivation context were carried out with the aim of facilitating a request for a quality mark, implement in situ (on farm) conservation schemes that are being developed in Italy and register the landrace in the European common catalogue of ‘conservation varieties’. These actions can help the landrace survive. Six farmer populations of the landrace and four élite varieties were characterised for thirteen morpho-physiological traits and nine AFLP primer combinations. The “Sedano Nero” farmer populations were better performers than élite varieties for important agronomic traits, such as yield, under the local agronomic conditions. Both morpho-physiological traits and molecular markers clearly distinguished the landrace from the élite cultivars. In addition, a structure was detected in the landrace with farmer populations being characterised by specific alleles. These results are discussed in connection with the local seed system and possible in situ conservation strategies for landraces.

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    Renzo Torricelli, Barbara Tiranti, Giorgia Spataro, Gildo Castellini, Emidio Albertini, Mario Falcinelli & Valeria Negri

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Supplementary material 1 (JPEG 1428 kb). Letter dated March 22nd, 1889: Don Giovanni Del Papa thanks the Trevi’s Mayor for having sent him celery seeds. Don G. Del Papa was the director of the ‘Colonia Agricola’ and of the ‘Collegio degli Artigianelli’ of the San Pietro Abbey in Perugia (former Fathers Benedettini Cassinesi Monastery). The seed was requested to initiate a new celery cultivation in the ‘Colonia Agricola’, the initial nucleus of the Faculty of Agriculture of Perugia University (that is still located there). Courtesy of the municipal archive of Trevi

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Torricelli, R., Tiranti, B., Spataro, G. et al. Differentiation and structure of an Italian landrace of celery (Apium graveolens L.): inferences for on farm conservation. Genet Resour Crop Evol 60, 995–1006 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-012-9896-5

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