DIVERSIFICATION IN THE SLOVENIAN VEGETABLE PRODUCTION

Slovenia could be considered as one of the centres of diversification for a number of vegetable crops.
Several landraces and cultivars were named according to the place where they have been grown for centuries.
Cultivars of lettuce, corn lettuce, carrot and cabbage were named after the town of Ljubljana; after the town of Ptuj cultivars of onion and garlic and after the town of Gorica cultivars of chicory.
Autochthonous cultivars, landraces of beans and cabbage, were collected and studied even before World War II and soon after breeding programmes started for different vegetables.
At present the following number of varieties can be found in Slovenia’s 2001 National List of Varieties: 12 beans, 6 chicory, 4 lettuce, 4 corn lettuce, 3 cabbage, 3 onion, 2 shallot, 2 carrot, 2 turnip, 2 garlic, 1 pepper and 1 tomato.
The Agricultural Institute of Slovenia holds 995 bean accessions, 170 lettuce accessions, 100 onion accessions and 12 cabbage accessions, all conserved at the national gene bank collection of agricultural crops.

International Symposium on Sustainable Use of Plant Biodiversity to Promote New Opportunities for Horticultural Production Development

M. Cerne, V. Meglic, J. Šuštar-Vozlic

Diversification, beans, cabbage, lettuce, corn lettuce, chicory, onion, shallot, garlic, carrots, turnip, pepper, tomato, breeding, gene bank.

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2003.598.23