Open AccessResearch Concerning Cucumber (Cucumis Sativus L. Mill) Genetic Diversity
Author(s) -
Aurel Maxim,
Mig Şandor,
Lucia Mihălescu,
Ovidiu maxim,
Oana Mare Roşca,
Veronica Bolboacă
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
bulletin of university of agricultural sciences and veterinary medicine cluj-napoca. agriculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1843-5386
pISSN - 1843-5246
DOI - 10.15835/buasvmcn-agr:6531
Subject(s) - cultivar , genetic erosion , cucumis , agriculture , genetic diversity , agricultural biodiversity , diversity (politics) , biology , geography , agroforestry , agronomy , microbiology and biotechnology , agricultural science , horticulture , political science , ecology , sociology , law , population , demography
During the second part of the twentieth century the cultivated plants have been faced with genetic erosion, because of the expandinding industrial farming systems. The sustainable agriculture can not exist without a rich genetic diversity.
After the United Nations Conference from Rio de Janeiro (1992), when the Convention on Biological Diversity was adopted, a series of acts and european references that protect agrobiodiversity had emerged.
Between 2007 and 2010, at the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine a program which aims to identify and conserve local vegetable varieties was conducted. Out of 290 cultivars, 171 (58.9%) were genuine local varieties.
There were collected 12 cucumber cultivars from the following counties: Salaj (7), Cluj (3), Bistrita-Nasaud (1) and Satu-Mare (1). The morphologic caractheristics proved that all this 12 cultivars were authentic and valuable local varieties.
The local varieties were agronomical, biological and biochemical characterized, both in field and laboratory. The seeds achieved from those 12 local varieties were preserved in the Suceava Gene Bank, from where stakeholders (farmers, agronomists, researchers) can obtain seeds.