Very Good Information........... Thanks Dr Porcher On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 6:10 AM, ushadi Micromini <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 > =========== > > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
