Allium

Looking at Flavonoid Biodiversity in Horticultural Crops: A Colored Mine with Nutritional Benefits

“…Allium ursinum (wild garlic) and A. victorialis contain genetic traits for novel flavonoids, which could be introgressed in A. sativum . So far, garlic breeding has been limited to clonal selection of wild varieties or natural mutants, but a recently developed routine seed production will be useful for introgression of genes from wild relatives [98].…”

An Updated Checklist of the Sicilian Native Edible Plants: Preserving the Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Century-Old Agro-Pastoral Landscapes

“…In the perspective of implementing sustainable agriculture under the current global change scenario, each of the 39 plants reported in Table 1, showing the most promising traits in terms of tolerance to several stress factors (water shortage, high temperatures, and edaphic constraints), could be cultivated for experimental purposes. Also, given that a considerable number of Sicilian NWFP can be considered CWR, they could be tested in ad hoc genetic improvement programs of traditional crops, like it has been already done for Allium (Odeny and Narina, 2011), Asparagus (Falavigna et al, 2008;Kanno andYokoyama, 2011), Beta (McGrath et al, 2011), Daucus (Grzebelus et al, 2011;Iorizzo et al, 2013), Lactuca (Davey and Anthony, 2011), Vicia (Bryant and Hughes, 2011), and for many Brassicaceae Moreover, further research should be focused on many speciesrich and promising families and genera of NWFP (Table 2) whose members could be used in domestication programs aiming at developing new crops: i.e., new fragrances such as thymes (e.g., Thymbra capitata and Thymus spinulosus) and other Lamiaceae such as Clinopodium nepeta, Lavandula stoechas, and Micromeria juliana, new vegetables such as several wild species of Asparagus and wild rockets (e.g., Diplotaxis spp., Erucastrum virgatum).…”