Potato onion (Allium cepa L. Aggregatum group). Lake Peipus area, Estonia. Photo: L. Maggioni
Grant Scheme Activity
Phase X
Phase IX
| Fourth Call (2016) |
Working Group activities and related events
September 2024
The Garli-CCS-Cryopreservation workshop will be held on 17-20 September 2024 in Prague, Czech Republic. [More info]
April 2023
The 2nd webinar on ECPGR Grant Scheme Activities, held on 17 April 2023, focused on the SafeAlliDiv project and was presented by Helena Stavělíková, Crop Research Institute [presentation available here (2,3 MB)], Czech Republic Dainis Runģis, Latvian State Forest Research Institute [presentation available here (659,7 KB)]. Click below to watch the recording of the webinar.
March 2023
The report of the eighth meeting of the Allium Working Group held from 11 to 12 October 2022 in Skierniewice, Poland, is available [here]
December 2022
The project on 'Genotyping-by-sequencing of the European garlic collection to develop a sustainable ex situ conservation strategy (Garli-CCS)' – submitted by the Allium, Cryopreservation, and Documentation & Information Working Groups for funding under the Sixth Call of the Phase X ECPGR Activity Grant Scheme – was selected by the Executive Committee. [more info]
October 2022
The Allium Working Group met from 11 to 12 October 2022 in Skierniewice, Poland. [More info]
October 2020
The SafeAlliDiv published the following article: Genetic characterization of European potato onion (Allium cepa var Aggregatum G. Don) collections
May 2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting, originally planned for 26-27 May 2020 in Skierniewce. Poland, was cancelled. New dates to be scheduled.
January 2020
Safeguarding of potato onion (Allium cepa L. Aggregatum group) and garlic (Allium sativum L.) crop diversity in North Europe – Baltic region (SafeAlliDiv): the Final Activity Report (June 2017–June 2019) and related data are now available online [here].
October 2018
Safeguarding of potato onion (Allium cepa L. Aggregatum group) and garlic (Allium sativum L.) crop diversity in North Europe – Baltic region (SafeAlliDiv): the Interim Activity Report (June 2017–June 2018) is now available online [here].
April 2018
The second SafeAlliDiv project meeting was held 17-18 April 2018 in Olomouc, Czech Republic. [more info]
August 2017
The Allium Working Group agreed on their crop-specific standards for in vitro culture and cryopreservation (see here)
July 2017
The first SafeAlliDiv project meeting was held 11-12 July 2017 in Tallinn, Estonia. [more info]
December 2016
The project on "Safeguarding of potato onion (Allium cepa L. Aggregatum group) and garlic (Allium sativum L.) crop diversity in North Europe - Baltic region (SafeAlliDiv)", submitted by the Allium Working Group for funding under the Fourth Call of the ECPGR Activity Grant Scheme, was selected by the Executive Committee. [more info]
May 2015
The Allium Working Group agreed on their crop-specific standards for field genebanks (see here)
2013
Further development of the European Allium Database
Thanks to the database manager Markus Oppermann at IPK, Gatersleben, the European Allium Database has been upgraded into a database which is searchable online. This is a real improvement in contrast to the earlier state of an Access database only.
Working Group operative documents
- Working Group Chair’s report for Phase IX (prepared for the Fifteenth ECPGR Steering Committee Meeting) (see here)
Background information
The Allium Working Group was established in 1982 as one of the original six Working Groups developed during the first Phase of ECPGR.
Related Information
Other Working Group documents and publications