Irena Chukhina

• N.I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry

Cultivated amaranth has nutritional value due to the balanced content of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, trace elements and minerals in seeds and leaves, and also is characterized by intensive growth, high productivity of seeds and biomass. In Russia, amaranths have not attracted much interest as cultivated plants for a long time. Academician N.I. V...

The herbarium collections of Russia have been inventoried for determining the preserved diversity of cultivated barley ( Hordeum vulgare L.) collected in the Russian part of Altai. It was found that the collected specimens of H. vulgare s.l. from this region, the total of 40 accessions, are represented only in the Herbarium of Cultivated Plants of...

Nomenclatural standards of five iris cultivars, namely ‘Andrey Kniazev’, ‘Eduard Regel’, ‘Marishka’, ‘Temuri’, and ‘Vitosha’ bred at the Peter the Great Botanical Garden of the V.L. Komarov Botanical Institute of RAS have been prepared in accordance with the rules and recommendations outlined in the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated...

Nomenclatural standards of three raspberry ( Rubus idaeus L.) cultivars ‘Kleopatra’ (WIR-98480), ‘Sulamif’’ (WIR-98517) and ‘Shakhrazada’ (WIR-98536) bred at the I.V. Michurin Federal Scientific Center (FSC) were prepared according to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants. The nomenclatural standards of these cultivars have b...

Development of productive strawberry cultivars adapted to harsh winter conditions is an urgent task for plant breeders in Russia. The M. G. Safronov Yakut Scientific Research Institute of Agriculture has used wild strawberry forms combining several useful agronomic and biological traits, primarily the resistance to extreme environmental conditions,...

Based on the rules and recommendations of the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants, nomenclatural standards were prepared for three green bean cultivars ‘Elizaveta’, ‘Uspekh’, and ‘Rebus’ bred at the N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources (VIR). The nomenclatural standards were designed as herbarium sheets...

Taxonomic studies were carried out in the collection of cultivated potato species kept in the Herbarium of Cultivated Plants of the World, Their Wild Relatives, and Weeds (WIR). It allowed us to proceed with typifying the names of intraspecific taxa within Solanum andigenum Juz. et Buk., belonging to three geographical groups: Colombian, South Peru...

As part of a comprehensive program for registering and preserving the gene pool of Russian varieties in the VIR genebank, initiated at the N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources, nomenclatural standards were assigned to potato cultivars ‘Alâska’, ‘Argo’, ‘Bravo’, ‘Irbitskij’, ‘Legenda’, ‘Lûks’, ‘Terra’, and ‘Šah’, and a vouch...

Th e great diversity of national and foreign raspberry varieties grown in nurseries poses great risks of variety confusion. Th e risks can be eliminated by introducing the standards of varieties. Th ese include nomenclature standards which are instrumental in comparing morphological characteristics, and, if necessary, genetic identifi cation that c...

This article is devoted to designing of nomenclatural standards of raspberry cultivars bred by the Sverdlovsk Horticultural Breeding Station (‘Alaya rossy’p’’, ‘Antares’, ‘Barxatnaya’, ‘Vanda’, ‘Vy’sokaya’, ‘Lel’’, ‘Lyubitel’skaya Sverdlovska’, ‘Muza’, ‘Rovnicza’ and ‘Fregat’) and by the Novosibirsk Zonal Gardening Station (‘Arochnaya’, ‘Persikovay...

Robert E. Regel was the first to comprehensively analyze the diversity of cultivated barley in Russia and identify more than fifty new subvarieties. Some of them he published in two articles: «Barleys with smooth awns» (1908) and «The most important varieties and races of barleys in Russia» (1910). The present study was carried out because no one h...

At the end of the 1920s, Vavilov organized several potato-collecting missions in South and Central America. Vavilov and his colleagues, Juzepczuk and Bukasov, participated in these expeditions and worked on gathered material, designated two centers of potato varietal riches and diversity—the Peru–Bolivia high-mountain center and the southern coast...

The International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants promotes uniformity, accuracy, and stability in the naming of agricultural, forestry and horticultural plants. It governs the nomenclature of such categories as Cultivar, Group and Grex, and provides stability in the rules of their naming avoiding or rejecting the use of names that may ca...

Alexander Ivanovich Malzev is one of the foremost collectors and founders of the VIR herbarium collection (WIR). To develop the original system of Euavena section, he collected over 16,000 herbarium specimens and studied Russian and foreign herbarium collections of botanical gardens, museums and universities. During the inventory of historical c...

This article is devoted to designing nomeclatural standars and herbarium vouchers of raspberry cultivars bred in the M.A. Lisavenko Research Institute of Horticulture for Siberia. The article presents nomeclatural standards of cultivars ‘Barnaul’skaya’, ‘Blesk’, ‘Dobraya’, ‘Zoren’ka Altaya’, ‘Illyuziya’, ‘Kredo’ and ‘Rubinovaya’. The work has been...

Information update of the database "Crop Wild Relatives of Russia" has been started. Based on the review of the modern botanical online resources, the concept of the database development is presented and its structure is developed, which includes six thematic blocks: "Taxa", "General description", "Use", "Distribution", "Conservation", "Images.

The publication is devoted to archaeobotanical studies of the Maslyanaya Gora fort as well as to issues related to it`s household features. The fort is located in the lower reaches of the Belbek River (Southwestern Crimea), in the contact zone between Chersonesos and the local barbarian population. Two stages of the object`s existence have been dis...

An urgent need to use a unified nomenclature for cultivated plants was indicated at the beginning of the 20th century by R.E. Regel, A.I. Malzev, K.A. Flyaksberger. Half a century later, an appendix to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Stockholm, 1952) published the first formulated rules for naming cultivated plants, which provided...

Breeding of potato cultivars adapted to the climatic conditions of the Middle Volga region and resistant to various harmful organisms has always been an urgent task for breeders of the Tatarstan Republic. In the present paper, the potato cultivars bred at the Tatar Research Institute of Agriculture – Kazan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy o...

In the present paper, the potato cultivars bred at the Leningrad Research Institute for Agriculture “Belogorka”, were taken as an example for demonstrating the results of elaboration of methodological approaches that are currently developed at the N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Genetic Resources (VIR) for the preparing of nomenclatural standards a...

VIR is creating a collection of nomenclature standards for cultivars of different crops in line with the provisions of the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP). The nomenclatural standards are designed in the form of a herbarium sample in cooperation with the authors of cultivars, who select plant material for each culti...

Problems of the conservation and use of plant resources in the context of climate change and socioeconomic challenges are considered. Particular attention is paid to the conservation of crop wild relatives and traditional crop varieties as sources of genetic diversity, which had been lost by the modern gene pool of cultivated plants first in the pr...

Issuing specific recommendations on the in situ conservation of wild relatives of cultivated plants (=crop wild relatives, CWR) in Russia is possible only on the basis of preliminary comprehensive studies of their composition, structure and features. N.I. Vavilov was the founder of comprehensive studies of cultivated plant relatives. O.N. Korovina...

According to estimates of various taxonomists, the genus Rubus L. (Rosaceae Juss.) consists of 12-16 subgenera comprising ~750 species. The two largest subgenera are Idaeobatus (Focke) Focke, which includes raspberries, and the type subgenus Rubus (=Eubatus Focke), which contains blackberry species. Representatives of the genus Rubus have high nutr...

In order to preserve the genetic diversity of cultivars, it is recommended to develop documentation approaches through the registration of cultivar nomenclatural standards in accordance with the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants. The N.I Vavilov Institute of Plant Genetic Resources keeps developing this approach along with th...

The present paper discusses methodological approaches to the creation of nomenclatural standards and genetic passports for Russian cultivars, currently being developed at the N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Genetic Resources (VIR) in collaboration with different breeding research centers. Plant material of potato cultivars bred in the Siberian Rese...

Carl Linnaeus believed, even in his time, that na-mes of eminent scientists may serve as a good source to generate plant names. In 2017, the 130th birthday anniversary of Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov, an outstanding biologist of the twentieth century, was celebrated. The magnitude of his personality and his tremendous contribution to the knowledge of...

There are more than 3400 scientific herbaria in the world, with about 390 million specimens collected over the past 400 years, which document the Earth’s plant diversity. Information stored in the herbarium collections is not out of date over time and creates the basis for conducting and developing biodiversity research. The real breakthrough in th...

Вторичный ареал инвазионного вида борщевик Сосновского Heracleum sosnowskyi Manden не достиг в настоящее время своего экологического предела. Фактором, сдерживающим дальнейшее распространение этого адвентивного для подавляющего большинства региональных флор РФ вида, могло бы стать придание ему статуса карантинного объекта. Предварительная оценка по...

The proposed classification system of the species Linum usitatissimum L. is based on the study of morphological features and the results of analyzing hybrids from diallelic crosses among all supposed flax taxa including primitive forms and the wild species L. angustifolium Huds. Genetic similarity between taxa was judged by their morphological affi...

Herbariums of the V. L. Komarov Botanical Institute of RAS (LE) and N. I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources (WIR) have unique collections of wild and cultivated potatoes of Central and South America gathered by domestic collectors - S. M. Bukasov and S. V. Yuzepchuk. The peculiarity of herbarium material on potatoes, leading...

The worldwide collection of vegetable and cucurbit crops kept in VIR includes 50,019 accessions of various status -representatives of 27 families, 145 genera, 475 species received since 1923 from 95 countries of the world. Biodiversity of cultivated species and their wild relatives, especially from their centres of origin and diversity, is adequate...

A revision of herbarium specimens of Chilean potato species belonging to the section Petota Dumort. genus Solanum L. was conducted. The VIR herbarium [WIR] has 25 specimen sheets of five species: Solanum leptostigma Juz., S. maglia Schlechtd., S. molinae Juz., S. ochoanum Lechn., S. zykinii Lechn. Authentic materials from S.V. Yuzepczuk and V.S. Le...

In accordance with the agreement between VIR and UzRIPI, in order to implement the GPA, in carrying out of the PGR Strategy for the Central Asian region, an international collecting mission (Uzbekistan-Russia-Japan) to collect the plant diversity of landraces and wild species was conducted from 11 to 26 July 2009 for collecting of grain and vegetab...

The herbarium collection of the N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry (WIR) contains specimens of cultivated plants, their wild relatives and weedy plants and provides ample opportunities for research. It is a unique special herbarium collection and one of those rare collections having a card index (catalog). For the catalog to be functional, it...