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Acknowledgements C. JEFFREY The author expresses his most grateful thanks to Dr. Helmut Knüpffer and Dr. Jörg Ochsmann for preparing the paper for publication and to Dr. T. Egorova for loan of her copy of the ICNCP. References HANELT, P. and INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH (Eds.) (2001): Mansfeld’s Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops. Springer, Berlin etc., 1-6, 3716 pp. GREUTER, W., J. MCNEILL, F.R. BARRIE, H.M. BURDET, V. DEMOULIN, T.S. FILGUEIRAS, D.H. NICOLSON, P.C. SILVA, J.E. SKOG, P. TREHANE, N.J. TURLAND and D.L. HAWKSWORTH (Eds.) (2000): International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Saint Louis Code) adopted by the Sixteenth International Botanical Congress St. Louis, Missouri, July-August 1999. - Regnum Veget. 138, 474 pp. [http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iapt/nomenclature/code/SaintLouis/0000St.Luistitle.htm] RIEDL, R. (1984): Biology of Knowledge: The evolutionary basis of reason. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 252 pp. SCHUH, R.T. (2000): Biological Systematics: Principles and Applications. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca and London, 236 pp. TREHANE, P., C.D. BRICKELL, B.R. BAUM, W.L.A. HETTERSCHEID, A.C. LESLIE, J. MCNEILL, S.A. SPONGBERG and F. VRUGTMAN (Eds.) (1995): International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants - 1995. - Regnum Veget. 133, 175 pp. 59

Development of Vavilov’s concept of the intraspecific classification of cultivated plants Development of Vavilov’s concept of the intraspecific classification of cultivated plants: case studies in genera of the Fabaceae family T. SMEKALOVA 1 Introduction Until recently, the term systematics has been used synonymously with the term taxonomy, even by biologists. However, the doctrine of classification of organisms is only one of several purposes of systematics. Plant classification begins from their inventory, or cataloguing, by identification, and ends with the assignment of the plants to certain taxa. Another element of systematics is nomenclature, i.e., choosing or establishing the correct scientific plant name in accordance with the nomenclatural system. The next and the most important purpose of systematics is the construction of a modern phylogenetic, genealogical system, to reflect the affinity between taxa of different ranks and the evolution of the plant world. Ultimately, the main task of a taxonomist is to find the single right place in the evolutionary system for the taxa he/she deals with. To achieve this aim, an the taxonomist needs expertise knowledge of many different branches of biology. When analysing the development of plant systematics from the period of construction of artificial to natural and, finally, to modern phylogenetic systems, two stages can be distinguished within the last period: the stage of “population systematics, based on the interpretation of the species as a complex of local populations”, and the stage of “creation of synthetic systems”, i.e., the making-up of systems by a synthesis or combination of different approaches (MELIKYAN 1984). The crucial problem of not only plant systematics, but also biology in general, is the concept of the basic taxonomic category, i.e., the species, especially its circumscription and structure. According to VAVILOV, “the history of systematics of cultivated plants is illuminative. It shows how a scientist had to change his view of the species step by step”. The concept of the species changes, “depending on the level of development of the biological science, the purposes of systematisation and the methodology of a researcher” (KONAREV 1995). There were differences in the circumscription of species, which led to an extensive discussion, and even a struggle in the 1930-50s (ROZANOVA 1946) between the proponents of “macro-” and “microspecies”, that is, 1 N.I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry (VIR) 60 Bolshaya Morskaya St. 42 190000 St. Petersburg, Russia

Acknowledgements<br />

C. JEFFREY<br />

The author expresses his most grateful thanks to Dr. Helmut Knüpffer and Dr. Jörg<br />

Ochsmann for preparing the paper for publication and to Dr. T. Egorova for loan of<br />

her copy of the ICNCP.<br />

References<br />

HANELT, P. and INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH (Eds.)<br />

(2001): Mansfeld’s Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops. Springer,<br />

Berlin etc., 1-6, 3716 pp.<br />

GREUTER, W., J. MCNEILL, F.R. BARRIE, H.M. BURDET, V. DEMOULIN, T.S. FILGUEIRAS,<br />

D.H. NICOLSON, P.C. SILVA, J.E. SKOG, P. TREHANE, N.J. TURLAND and D.L.<br />

HAWKSWORTH (Eds.) (2000): International Code of Botanical Nomenclature<br />

(Saint Louis Code) adopted by the Sixteenth International Botanical Congress<br />

St. Louis, Missouri, July-August 1999. - Regnum Veget. 138, 474 pp.<br />

[http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iapt/nomenclature/code/SaintLouis/0000St.Luistitle.htm]<br />

RIEDL, R. (1984): Biology of Knowledge: The evolutionary basis of reason. John<br />

Wiley and Sons, New York, 252 pp.<br />

SCHUH, R.T. (2000): Biological Systematics: Principles and Applications. Cornell<br />

Univ. Press, Ithaca and London, 236 pp.<br />

TREHANE, P., C.D. BRICKELL, B.R. BAUM, W.L.A. HETTERSCHEID, A.C. LESLIE, J.<br />

MCNEILL, S.A. SPONGBERG and F. VRUGTMAN (Eds.) (1995): International Code<br />

of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants - 1995. - Regnum Veget. 133, 175 pp.<br />

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