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Category: FLWR-FRUIT
  1. 3.1 - Flowering stem (3.1) Ability to produce flowering stem
  2. 3.2 - Flowering: curvature (3.2) Curvature of flowering stem
  3. 3.3 - Flowering stem: length (cm) (3.3) Scape length of plants with fully bloomed primary umbels
  4. 3.6 - Number of bulbils (3.6) Average number of 5-10 inflorescences from different plants
Category: GROWTH
  1. 4.7 - Bulb skin thickness (4.7) Visual observation on harvested bulbs with dry skin
Category: MORPHOLOGY
  1. 1.1 - Foliage colour (1.1) The trait should be made on fully developed plants at beginning of flowering
  2. 1.2 - Foliage attitude (1.2) The angle formed by the leaves with an imaginary axis
  3. 1.3 - Cross section of leaf (1.3) The trait should be assessed in developed plants
  4. 1.4 - Number of leaves (1.4) Number of total leaves
  5. 1.5 - Leaf length (1.5) Record the length of longest leaf (cm)
  6. 1.6 - Leaf width (1.6) Record the maximum width of the longest leaf (cm)
  7. 2.1 - Pseudostem: intensity of anthocyanin (2.1) Coloration at base of pseudostem
  8. 2.2 - Pseudostem: length (2.2) Measure on mature plants in the ground, from soil level to the inner lamina notch (cm)
  9. 2.3 - Pseudostem: width (2.3) Measure with a stud: width of the base (cm)
  10. 3.4 - Internal structure of mature scape (3.4) Internal structure of mature scape of plants with fully bloomed primary umbels
  11. 4.1.1 - Bulb diameter (4.1.1) Bulb diameter measure with a stud (cm)
  12. 4.1.2 - Bulb height (4.1.2) Bulb height measure with a stud (cm)
  13. 4.10 - Compacteness of cloves (4.10) Compacteness of cloves on mature dry bulbs
  14. 4.2 - Shape of mature dry bulbs (4.2) Visual observation of shape of mature dry bulbs
  15. 4.3 - Shape of the compound bulb in horizontal section (4.3) Visual observation of shape of the compound bulb in horizontal section
  16. 4.4 - Shape of mature garlic bulb (4.4) Based on Burba's method of demonstring the forms by means of longitudinal sections
  17. 4.5 - Bulb skin colour (4.5) Outer skin colour of compound bulb
  18. 4.6 - Bulb skin adherence (4.6) Bulb skin adherence of dry external scales
  19. 4.8 - Bulb external cloves (4.8) Observed at the mature bulb stage
  20. 4.9 - Bulb structure type (4.9) "The scores is based on ""fan shaped"" groups of cloves derived from the axil of one leaf base"
  21. 5.2.1 - Colour of scale (5.2.1) Colour of scale on cloves of mature dry bulbs
  22. 5.2.2 - Intensity of color of scale (5.2.2) Intensity of color of scale on cloves of mature dry bulbs
  23. 5.3 - Anthocyanin stripes on scale (5.3) Anthocyanin stripes on scale on cloves of mature dry bulbs
  24. 5.4 - Colour of flesh (5.4) Colour of flesh on cloves of mature dry bulbs
  25. 5.5 - Clove height (5.5) Average of two cloves of mature dry bulbs (mm)
  26. 5.6 - Clove width (5.6) Average of two cloves of mature dry bulbs (mm)
Category: PHENOLOGY
  1. 3.9 - Harvest date (3.9) Harvest date of whole plants
Category: PRODUCTION
  1. 4.11 - Number of cloves (4.11) Number of cloves per mature bulbs
  2. 5.1 - Weight of cloves (5.1) Average weight of 10 cloves (gr)


Banco Nacional de Germoplasma Vegetal Policy

The “Banco Português de Germoplasma Vegetal” (BPGV) conserves living seed and plant samples of mainly Portuguese crops and their wild relatives.

BPGV ensures that the genetic resources that support our food supply are both secure in the medium and long term for future generations and available for use by farmers, plant breeders, and researchers.

These collections are important to ensure that crop plants, which may contain genes to resist disease, provide enhanced nutrition, or survive in changing or harsh environments do not become endangered or extinct over time.

The BPGV located in Braga, Portugal maintains clonal and seed collections of the most important crops, such as cereals, grain legumes, vegetables, medicinal and aromatic plants, forage, pasture and fruit species.

The BPGV is maintained as a global public good under the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA).

BPGV is the custodian of one of the largest germplasm collections, with more than 10,000 accessions maintained as seeds and living plants, and recently started a cryopreservation programme.