| Title: | Evaluation of Garlic Landraces from Foggia Province (Puglia Region; Italy) |
| Author(s): | Bonasia A; Conversa G; Lazzizera C; Loizzo P; Gambacorta G; Elia A; |
| Address: | "Department of the Science of Agriculture, Food and Environment (SAFE), University of Foggia, 71100 Foggia, Italy. Department of Soil, Plant and Food Sciences, University of Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 2304-8158 (Print) 2304-8158 (Electronic) 2304-8158 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Interest in local landraces has unfortunately decreased over, the last decades, in which they have been continuously subjected to a high genetic erosion in favour of new modern varieties. Within the Puglia region (S-E Italy), Foggia province was found to be the richest in vegetable landraces. In the present study, six garlic landraces collected from this area have been assessed for their chemical composition (minerals, organic acids, free sugars, volatile, and phenolic compounds) along with their main morpho-biometrical traits. A commercial genotype was also considered as a reference standard. The landraces show a large variability, but in general high morphological standards, high levels of cations and phenols, and low levels of volatile-(S)-compounds in comparison with the commercial genotype and the literature values. 'Aglio di Peschici' and 'Aglio Rosso di Monteleone di Puglia' are very rich in minerals and phenols (mainly ferulic acid and iso-rhamnetin). This increase in knowledge on the chemical properties of these garlic landraces could represent a tool for encouraging the consumption of a food product. At the same time, the consumption of these landraces would stimulate their cultivation and could highly contribute to protection against the risk of erosion of agro-biodiversity by their in situ/on-farm conservation" |
| Keywords: | Allium sativum L.agro-biodiversity bulb morphology local varieties phenols volatile compounds; |
| Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINEBonasia, Anna Conversa, Giulia Lazzizera, Corrado Loizzo, Pasqua Gambacorta, Giuseppe Elia, Antonio eng This research was funded by Regione Puglia Administration under the 'Rural Development Programme (RDP) 2014-2020 - Project 'Biodiversity of vegetable crops in Puglia (BiodiverSO)'. Measure 10, Sub measure 10.2, Operation 1 'Programme for the conservation/Regione Puglia/ Switzerland 2020/07/03 Foods. 2020 Jun 29; 9(7):850. doi: 10.3390/foods9070850" |
