Nomenclatural standards of black currant cultivars bred by the I.V. Michurin Federal Scientific Center

Abstract

According to the recently proposed comprehensive strategy for the registration and conserving of Russian varieties of vegetatively propagated crops in the VIR genebank, plant material is transferred by cultivar authors to VIR to create nomenclatural standards and preserve them in the VIR Herbarium of Cultivated Plants, their Wild Relatives and Weeds (WIR), as well as for viable preservation in the VIR in vitro, cryo- and field collections and for genotyping the cultivars. Plant material of 14 of black currant cultivars was collected by colleagues from the I.V. Michurin Federal Scientific Center (I.V. Michurin FSC), including the cultivar authors, and transferred to the VIR Herbarium for preparing of nomenclatural standards. In accordance with the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Cultivated Plants, nomenclatural standards have been prepared for the following black currant cultivars: ‘Amirani’, ‘Bagira’, ‘Vospominanie’, ‘Zelënai͡a Dymka’, ‘Malenʹkiĭ Print͡s’, ‘Pami󠆎͡atʹ Michurina’, ‘Sozvezdie’, ‘Tamerlan’, ‘Tatʹi͡anin Denʹ’, ‘Charovnit͡sa’, ‘Chernavka’, ‘Chërnyĭ Zhemchug’, ‘Shalunʹi͡a’, ‘Ėlevesta’. Nomenclature standards registered in the VIR Herbarium database were transferred for storage to the VIR Herbarium of cultivated plants of the world, their wild relatives and weeds (WIR). Plant material transferred from the I.V. Michurin FSC was used not only for herbarization and creation of nomenclatural standards, but also for live preservation of cultivars in the VIR in vitro and field collections.