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Activity Report
The ISTA List of Stabilized Plant Names continues to be available as a web document at http://www.ars-grin.gov/~sbmljw/istaintrod.html on the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This is easily accessible via a GRIN link from the ISTA web page for the NOM Committee. A new web page for searching this nomenclature has now been created, at http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxassoc.pl with versions in French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish in addition to English. The names on this List can be searched in conjunction with other GRIN data, such as distribution, economic uses, or common names, and easy access to these other data is available via links from the entries on the List. Currently, consultations of this List on the web average several hundred per month.
A request to broaden our Stabilized List entry for xFestulolium from its current xF. braunii to a listing of only the intergeneric hybrid name xFestulolium generated some discussion on the Committee. The name xFestulolium braunii technically covers only hybrids between the two parent species Festuca pratensis and Lolium multiflorum, but a number of other species are now involved in breeding additional commercial varieties of xFestulolium. Strickly speaking, these would not be covered by the current entry for xFestulolium braunii, which was added to the Stabilized List due to its appearance in the 1999 Rules. Most opinions presented were in favor of broadening the entry to list only the genus, thereby covering all hybrids between Festuca and Lolium. A solution to this issue will be worked out by the Committee for presentation at the next ISTA Congress.
The impact of gene transfer from other related or unrelated organisms on hybrid nomenclature was raised in our discussion of the Festulolium example. When transfer of only a few genes is involved, all Committee opinions expressed on this issue favored assigning nomenclature based on morphological criteria as opposed to genetic criteria, and were against creating new hybrid designations for each particular combination of gene donors.
Dr. Maria Rosaria Mannino is thanked for representing the Nomenclature Committee at last year's Extraordinary meeting in Zürich.
Future Aims
Although no progress can be reported on this project in the last period because of competing commitments of the Committee leadership, the preparation of a new multilingual glossary of common names for agronomic and horticultural crops remains the future focus of the Committee. |
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