GREAT.... write up and Intro... ARE WE THUS focusing ONLY on Cultivated Citrus in INDIA?
>From these 3 messages, it seems we might be headed that way..... OR am I confused? Please clarify, *Dr Porcher or Dr Gurcharan ....* Thanks Usha di == On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 2:44 AM, OZmic <[email protected]> wrote: > Welcome to Citrus week. > I have been asked to coordinate this discussion but felt a little out of > my depth. > Dr. Gurcharan Singh having agreed to supervise the proceedings I feel a > little more relax. However mostly I will lead the exchanges related to > nomenclature. Here I feel in my element. As an introduction to the topic of > Citrus let me say that I truely believe that our discussion group has the > potential to sort most of the nomenclatural confusion in regards to Citrus > names in India. It will certainly take more than a week though. > I have received messages telling me that people do not feel they can > contribute because they are not experts. Everyone knows at least one > language, that means one has the capacity to check facts using references. > "Experts are people who know more and more about less and less". The two > complement each other, so let's all work hard together. > Here are selected references related to Citrus that will provide much > basic & advanced information. > > Background material available online. > Wikipedia's Cultivated plant taxonomy < > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivated_plant_taxonomy >. > Wikipedia's Page on the 2009 ICNCP Code online < > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Code_of_Nomenclature_for_Cultivated_Plants>. > Brickell, C.D. et al. (eds) (2009). "International Code of Nomenclature > for Cultivated Plants" <http://www.actahort.org/chronica/pdf/sh_10.pdf>. > *Scripta > Horticulturae* (International Society of Horticultural Science) *10*: > 1–184. ISBN<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number> > > 978-0-643-09440-6<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-643-09440-6> > . > < http://www.actahort.org/chronica/pdf/sh_10.pdf >. > > Referential material available online. > Jorma Koskinen's Citrus Pages: < > http://users.kymp.net/citruspages/botindex.html >. Each taxon illustrated > and botanically identified. > Robert Willard Hodgson's Horticultural Varieties of Citrus Chapter 4 of > The Citrus Industry: < http://lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/Vol1/Chapter4.html>. > Often > off line but keep trying. Lots of info about Indian cultivars. > My cross-index of Citrus names: < > http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Citrus.html > complements > Jorma's botanical pages. > My pages Malayalam index < > http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Malayalam-index-new.html >. > Tamil index and Notes pages < > http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Tamil_index_new.html > & < > http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Notes_Indian_names.html >. > The "specific and complementary" references listed at the bottom of these > pages will either serve many Indian names, most in romanised form or > provide facilities to translate, transcribe or transliterate those names. > Of course this does not exclude your favourite reference books. > Now we are equiped to do the hard work. > ....more coming > -- Usha di ===========
