Abstract:

The reduction of agro biodiversity started to concern more and more international organizations. The most important documents drawn up regarding this are: Convention on Biodiversity adopted in ONU Conference of Rio de Janeiro (1992), 98/95 EEC Directive, The International Convention regarding Genetic Resources of Plants for Alimentation and Agriculture (2001). These were transposed further in the Romanian legislation. Starting with 2007 year, at USAMV Cluj-Napoca, actions for inventorying seed producers and actions for collecting vegetable seeds from traditional varieties and local varieties of vegetables were being made. These were selected, characterized from agro biological, biochemical and molecular point of view and the seeds obtained in controlled conditions will be preserved in gene banks. From the 61 studied cultivars, 27 proved to be local authentic varieties

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