Patti, Miriam https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5380-1018
Giuffrè, Angelo Maria https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4663-8056
Musarella, Carmelo Maria https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0120-190X
Spampinato, Giovanni https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7700-841X
Article History
Received: 1 October 2025
Accepted: 18 November 2025
First Online: 12 December 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
: We declare that there are no guidelines and/or regional laws prohibiting the harvesting of Crepis aspromontana Brullo, Scelsi & Spamp. (Asteraceae) used for the present research. It is included in the Italian Red List and classified according with the IUCN’s criteria as Least Concern (LC), indicating that this species is not currently at risk of extinction. Additionally, we confirm that the germplasm collection was conducted without uprooting the plants and from a large population. Lastly, we assert that this activity can be considered as an ex-situ conservation tool, having tested the species’ domestication for conservation purposes.