Selective list of VIR’s methodological recommendations (guidelines) for 2000–2022

Abstract

The N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources (VIR) releases almost all types of publications traditional for research institutions. Since the 1920s, VIR has been regularly publishing methodological recommendations, or guidelines. This kind of publications has won its own specialized audience and retained it for over a hundred years. All recommendations (guidelines) are an assemblage of documents dedicated to the study, conservation, and replenishment of the unique global plant genetic resources collection held by VIR; plant breeding; seed production; cultivation; resistance of individual crops to diseases and pests; herbarization; long-term seed storage; biochemical, mycological, phytopathological, genetic, and biotechnological research methods; and many other issues. Such publications are widely used by the staff of VIR and the network of its branches in their practical work, and are also in demand with various scientists, experts, lecturers and teachers, postgraduate and undergraduate students all over Russia. Keeping in mind the ever increasing interest in such information, the Editorial Board of the journal Proceedings on Applied Botany, Genetics and Breeding decided to publish a selective list of VIR’s methodological recommendations (guidelines) for 2000–2022. For the sake of convenience, the material is arranged in chronological order. This list partially includes recommendations and guidelines published by other research institutions where VIR’s staff members were among the authors. It is our hope that the list will be found useful by our readers and authors of scientific publications. The list was compiled by the staff of the Library and Publishing Department of VIR.