Archive for 'Nomenclature and Cultivar Registration'
Longwood Gardens Plant Explorer Website
Longwood Gardens, in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania (USA), has launched its Plant Explorer website. Plant Explorer allows you to look up any plant by name and provides unprecedented access to Longwood’s plant records, plant images, garden information and interactive maps. You can access Plant Explorer at http://plantexplorer.longwoodgardens.org/
Posted: July 30th, 2010 under Announcements, Nomenclature and Cultivar Registration.
Intellectual property right systems for plant characteristics to change soon?
On Monday 19 April the Ministers of Economic Affairs and of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality in the Netherlands sent a letter to the Netherlands Parliament concerning the role of patent law in plant breeding. This letter was accompanied by the report “Breeding Business”, compiled by Wageningen UR as requested by the Dutch Government. In [...]
Posted: April 22nd, 2010 under Announcements, Biotechnology and Molecular Biology, Nomenclature and Cultivar Registration, Plant Genetic Resources.
New Edition of the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (8th Edition)
NEW EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL CODE OF NOMENCLATURE FOR CULTIVATED PLANTS, Published by the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) in the series Scripta Horticulturae. Scripta Horticulturae 10, 204 pages, October 2009 (ISSN 1813-9205) (ISBN 978-90-6605-662-6). Price for non-members of ISHS: 20 euro. ICNCP or Cultivated Plant Code, incorporating the Rules and Recommendations for naming [...]
Posted: November 12th, 2009 under Announcements, Nomenclature and Cultivar Registration.
The Botanical Garden of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: closing soon?
This is about an urgent action campaign to save a Dutch botanical garden. Submitted by Freek Vrugtman, Curator Emeritus, Royal Botanical Gardens, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The Botanical Garden of the Vrije Universiteit (Free University) of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is slated to be closed, giving way to an expansion of the University’s Medical Centre. The campaign [...]
Posted: March 19th, 2009 under Announcements, Nomenclature and Cultivar Registration.
First Announcement: I International Trials Conference: Assessment of Ornamental Plants
July 6-8, 2010, Guildford and Wisley (United Kingdom): I International Trials Conference: Assessment of Ornamental Plants http://www.rhs.org.uk/ornamentals2010 This is the first time that a worldwide conference with a focus on the testing of ornamental plants has been undertaken. This is the opportunity for breeding companies and organisations granting awards to plants to come together to [...]
Posted: December 4th, 2008 under ISHS Meetings, Nomenclature and Cultivar Registration, Ornamentals.
Acta Horticulturae 796, 797, 798 and 799 available
Acta Horticulturae 796; International Conference on Ripening Regulation and Postharvest Fruit Quality (ISBN 978-90-66054-28-8 ), Acta Horticulturae 797; International Workshop on Greenhouse Environmental Control and Crop Production in Semi-Arid Regions (ISBN 978-90-66055-81-0 ), Acta Horticulturae 798; III International Symposium on Fig (ISBN 978-90-66055-61-2 ) and Acta Horticulturae 799 V International Symposium on the Taxonomy of [...]
Posted: November 4th, 2008 under Acta Horticulturae, Figs, Horticultural Engineering, Nomenclature and Cultivar Registration, Nuts and Mediterranean Climate Fruits, Pome and Stone Fruits, Protected Cultivation.