NGBT Logo Ministère de L'Environnement
Banque Nationale de Gènes

Welcome!
Welcome to the GR Database of The National Genebank of Tunisia.


Taxon:  Allium porrum L.



Summary
Genus:
Allium
Subgenus:
Allium
Section:
Allium
Family:
Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:
Allioideae
Tribe:
Allieae
Nomen number:
2351
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:295. 1753, nom. rej.
Comment:
  • [or A. ampeloprasum Leek Group]
  • a rejected (nom. rej.), heterotypic synonym (Melbourne ICN Art. 14.4 & App. IV) of A. ampeloprasum L., nom. cons.
Verified:
07/01/1996 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
1 (1  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Allium porrum L. var. sectivum Lueder (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Allium ampeloprasum L. var. porrum (L.) J. Gay

No images
Reference(s)
  1. Bonnet, B. 1976. Le poireau (Allium porrum L.): aspects botaniques et agronomiques. Revue bibliographique. Saussurea 7:121-155.
  2. Boulos, L. Flora of Egypt. 1999-
  3. Brewster, J. L. 1994. Onions and other vegetable alliums. Crop Prod. Sci. Hort. 3:11. Note: = A. ampeloprasum Porrum Group
  4. Brummitt, R. K. 1999. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 48. Taxon 48:362-363. Note: conservation proposal recommended
  5. Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 1965-1988
  6. Erhardt, W. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. 2002
  7. Facciola, S. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. 1990 Note: = A. ampeloprasum Porrum Group
  8. Fritsch, R. M. & N. Friesen. 2002. Chapter 1. Evolution, domestication and taxonomy. Allium crop science: recent advances. 2002 23. Note: as a hexaploid, seed sterile A. ampeloprasum
  9. Hanelt, P. 1996. (1258) Proposal to conserve the name Allium ampeloprasum against A. porrum (Liliaceae). Taxon 45:691-692. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax
  10. Hirschegger, P. et al. 2010. Origins of Allium ampeloprasum horticultural groups and a molecular phylogeny of the section Allium (Allium: Alliaceae). Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 54:488-497. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10557903
  11. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
  12. Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. Flora SSSR. 1934-1964
  13. Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. 1993
  14. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976 Note: = A. ampeloprasum Porrum Group
  15. Mansfeld, R. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2. 1959
  16. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
  17. Mathew, B. A review of Allium sect. Allium. 1996
  18. Messiaen, C.-M. et al. 1993. Les Allium alimentaires reproduits par voie végétative. 1.230.
  19. Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:76
  20. Paunero, E. et al. 2004. Organic production of leek (Allium porrum L.) seeds in the northeast of the Province of Buenos Aires.. Spanish J. Agric. Res. 2:564-569.
  21. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  22. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española (on-line resource). Note: re. common names
  23. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  24. Ricroch, A. et al. 2005. Evolution of genome size across some cultivated Allium species. Genome 48:511-520.
  25. Smith, B. M. & T. C. Crowther. 1995. Inbreeding depression and single cross hybrids in leek (Allium ampeloprasum subsp. porrum). Euphytica 86:87-94. Note: indicates that this tetraploid taxon (4x=32) has an open pollination system with 20% of self pollination
  26. Stearn, W. T. 1944. Notes on the genus Allium in the Old World. Herbertia 11:11-34.
  27. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980
  28. Walters, S. M. et al., eds. European garden flora. 1986-
  29. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
  30. Yanagino, T. et al. 2003. Production and characterization of an interspecific hybrid between leek and garlic. Theor. Appl. Genet. 107:1-5. http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/122
  31. PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). Note: = A. ampeloprasum
Common names
English
leek –
Arabic
kurrat abou shousha –
French
poireau –
German
Lauch –
Porree –
Winter-Lauch –
Italian
porro –
Portuguese
alho-porró –
Spanish
ajo porro –
puerro –
Spanish (Latin America)
poro –
Transcribed Chinese
jiu cong –
Transcribed Korean
riikeu –
Distribution
Cultivated

  • REGION:
Africa
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China
Asia-Tropical
  • MALESIA: Indonesia
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia [Western Australia]
Europe
  • REGION: Europe
Northern America
  • REGION: United States
Southern America
  • CARIBBEAN: West Indies
  • SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina
Other (probable origin e. Mediterranean region)
Economic Uses
Food additives
Human food
vegetable (fide Rev sect Allium 70. 1996) –


NGBT Plant Germplasm System Distribution Policy

Plant germplasm is distributed to scientists, educators, producers and other bona fide research and education entities from National genebank of Tunisia active collection sites. The NGBT Curator and/or Research Leader will, in accordance with current NPGS policies and procedures, determine the legitimacy of a request when necessary.

Distributions to fulfill requests for repatriation of subsamples of germplasm collections to a country or community of origin, especially following natural or man-made catastrophes, are considered a high priority.

Although distributions for research, education, and repatriation are of the highest priority, the NPGS also encourages various seed-saver organizations and public gardens to conduct germplasm conservation activities that engage many individuals and groups throughout the country. Elements of the NPGS cooperate with seed-saver organizations and public gardens and may store germplasm for and distribute germplasm to such organizations.

Distribution of germplasm from NPGS collections to fulfill requests from individuals seeking free germplasm strictly for home use is generally considered an inappropriate use of limited resources and conflicts with U.S. Government policy of not competing with commercial enterprises. Requestors can be asked, in an appropriate manner, to justify the use of specific NPGS germplasm instead of suitable commercially available germplasm.

Accessions listed in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) database as “not available” due to insufficient or low viability seed and/or scheduled for regeneration will generally not be available for distribution.

Other accessions are listed in GRIN as “not available” because they are not a part of the NPGS collection per se, but are conserved in NPGS genebanks to meet specific needs as described later in the section entitled “Categories of Germplasm Distributed and Availability.” In this category are certain accessions of improved germplasm that are only available from the owner/developer. Other accessions require that specific conditions be met by the requestor before distribution is possible.

NPGS sites will not distribute germplasm internationally when they cannot comply with the importation or quarantine requirements of the recipient country unless the requestor can provide a valid waiver of such requirements.