Gli agroecotipi di fagiolo (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) della Basilicata.

As part a collaboration between the Germplasm Institute-CNR (Bari, Italy) and Bosco Galdo farm (of the agricultural service of Basilicata region), a project was carried out to safeguard the common landraces from Basilicata. Forty landraces were collected, evaluated and characterised. Among them, 21 are appreciated by local farmers for their agronomic traits and commonly sold in local markets. The others are rare populations mainly cultivated for self consumption. Since the future of the collected landraces is unpredictable they were stored ex situ at the Germplasm Institute.