The Allium database (EADB) was established at Wellesbourne, U.K. following the first meeting of the ECPGR Allium Working Group in Tápiószele, Hungary in 1984. The database was rebuilt in 2006 to underpin the objectives of the AEGIS Allium Subgroup to develop European collections and European Safety Duplicate collections for the vegetatively propagated Allium crops, namely garlic and shallot. The EADB was updated again in 2007 in support of the EU GENRES EURALLIVEG project. The EADB2007 database contains 14,194 accessions representing the 5 major Allium crops and the wild taxa from 43 institutions in 29 countries. The European Allium data are stored using the EURISCO Passport Descriptors (see database description below), and are available as downloadable MS Excel or MS Access files. The EADB is maintained by the Warwick HRI Genetic Resources Unit (GRU), funded by the UK Government Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).