Title: Catalogue of Mulberry Varieties, Developed under the Recreation of European Mulberry Heritage

Editors: Andreja Urbanek Krajnc, Silvia Cappellozza.

Authors: Andreja Urbanek Krajnc, Gianni Fila, Ana Pagan, Panomir Tzenov, José Cenis, Silvia Cappellozza.

Mulberry catalogue developers: Andreja Urbanek Krajnc, Peter Bernad, Damjan Krajnc, Mitja Cvetko.

Descriptor-based monitoring and photographic documentation: Andreja Urbanek Krajnc, Jan Senekovič, Tina Lešnik, Špela Jelen, Anna Gasperl, Mateja Šelih, Mario Lešnik, Gianni Fila, Panomir Tzenov, Krasimira Avramova, Ana Pagan, José J. Pérez, Silvia Cappellozza.

Photographic archiving and organisation: Tina Lešnik, Hana Glavnik, Jan Senekovič, Andreja Urbanek Krajnc.

Reviewers of the mulberry catalogue: Silvia Cappellozza, Andreja Urbanek Krajnc, Jan Senekovič, Gianni Fila, Panomir Tzenov, Anton Ivančič.

Illustrators: Martin Kozmos, Anton Ivančič.

Graphic design: Peter Bernad, Katja Udir, Mišič, Mitja Cvetko.

Other photographic material included in the main text: archives of CREA, SCS Vratsa, IMIDA, UM; Jani Pavlič, Matevž Pucer.

The catalog was created within the ARACNE project (Advocating the role of Silk Art and Cultural Heritage at National and European Scale – Horizon Europe project, Grant Agreement No 101095188), Work package 4: Towards the European Silk Route through tangible and intangible silk cultural heritage and landscapes, Task 4.3: Set up of a gene bank of local mulberry’s variety and one local strain rearing for local communities to stimulate local silk production for CCIs

Project leader: Silvia Cappellozza (Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l’Analisi dell’Economia Agraria – CREA), WP4 leader: Association Chemin de la Soie des Cévennes aux Alpujarras (ASSOIE) and T4.3 leader: Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l’Analisi dell’Economia Agraria (CREA)

Publication Type E-publications Available at: https://aracneproject.eu/publications/

Published: Maribor, Slovenia, February, 2026

Acknowledgement

We gratefully acknowledge all gardeners and technical staff whose dedicated work in mulberry propagation and long-term maintenance made these germplasm collections possible. We also thank researchers from partner and other European institutions, students, as well as passionate mulberry enthusiasts, for their valuable advice and for providing germplasm material that significantly contributed to the richness of the collections.

 

Germplasm collection (Participant organisation name)	Curators and researchers involved	Short name
Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l’Analisi dell’Economia Agraria, Italy	Silvia Cappellozza, Gianni Fila	CREA
University of Maribor, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Slovenia	Andreja Urbanek Krajnc,  Jan Senekovič, Tina Lešnik,  Špela Jelen, Anna Gasperl,  Mateja Šelih, Mario Lešnik	UM
Nauchen Tsentar Po Bubarstvo Vratsa, Bulgaria	Panomir Tzenov, Zdravko Petkov	SCS
Instituto Murciano de Investigacion y Desarrollo Agrario y Medioambiental (IMIDA), Spain	Ana Pagan, Elena Ruiperez,   José J. Pérez	IMIDA