The article contains descriptions of the morphological, biological and economic characters of spring barley cultivars ‘Kudesnik’ and ‘Divnyj’ (Hordeum vulgare L. ssp. distichon (L.) Körn. var. nutans Körn.) bred by the Scientific Research Institute of Agriculture for Northern Trans-Ural Region – Branch of Federal Research Centre Tyumen Scientific Centre of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SRIA for NTUR – Branch of Tyumen Scientific Centre SB RAS, Tyumen region, Russia) as well as information about the history of spring barley breeding at the said Institute.

As part of this work, the nomenclatural standards of cultivars ‘Kudesnik’ and ‘Divnyj’ were created. The plant material for nomenclatural standards was collected at the Pushkin laboratories of the Research and Production Base “Pushkin and Pavlovsk laboratories of VIRˮ. All plants for making a herbarium specimen of a cultivar were those grown from one seed sample.

The nomenclatural standard of cultivar ‘Kudesnik’ is represented by one herbarium sheet and is duplicated by four herbarium sheets, while the nomenclatural standard of cultivar ‘Divnyj’ is mounted on one herbarium sheet and has three duplicate sheets. Every sheet contains the entire plant at the milky ripeness stage, mature spikes and grain samples.

The nomenclatural standards were produced in accordance with the recommendations of the International Code of Nomenclature of Cultivated Plants (ICNCP) and registered in the VIR Herbarium database. The herbarium specimens were deposited at the Herbarium of Cultivated Plants of the World, their Wild Relatives and Weeds (WIR) at the National Center for Plant Genetic Resources. 

The nomenclatural standard of spring two-row barley cultivar ‘Talovsky 9’, bred by the Federal Government Budgetory Scientific Institution "Voronezh Federal Agricultural Scientific Centre named after V.V. Dokuchaev" (FGBSI "Voronezh FASC named after V.V. Dokuchaev") former V.V. Dokuchaev Scientific Research Institute of Agriculture of the Central Black Earth Zone was created.

The pedigree of the 'Talovsky 9' barley cultivar includes the ‘Pervenets’ and ‘Donetsk 8’ cultivars, highly resistant to smut, and highly resistant to root rot cultivars the ‘Donetsk 8’ and ‘Preriya’. Cultivar ‘Talovsky 9’ was selected by the method of stepwise hybridization between productive and drought-resistant cultivars ‘Pervenets’, ‘Donetsk 8’, ‘Prairie’, followed by individual selection from the hybrid population F₃. The barley cultivar 'Talovsky 9' is zoned in Belgorod, Voronezh, Kursk, Lipetsk and Tambov regions within the Central Black Earth region and was included in the State Register, State Register code 9610219 in 2007 (State Register…, 2023).

The herbarium specimen of the nomenclatural standard of cultivar ‘Talovsky 9’ is presented on one herbarium sheet and has 2 sheets of doublet. All sheets contain entire plants in a state of milk stage collected at the Research and Production Base “Pushkin and Pavlovsk laboratories of the VIR”, ripe inflorescences and grains collected at the Voronezh Federal Agricultural Scientific Centre named after V.V. Dokuchaev. All specimens for the herbaria are plants grown from the same seeds generation.

The nomenclatural standard was prepared in accordance with the recommendations of the International Code of Nomenclature of Cultivated Plants (ICNCP), registered in the VIR Herbarium database and were processed and accessioned to the Herbarium WIR. 

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, three per cultivar for ‘Elizaveta’ and ‘Rebus’, and four sheets for cv. ‘Uspekh’. Each sheet contains parts of one plant supplemented with photographs of beans, seeds and flowers of each green bean cultivar. Nomenclatural standards were registered in the VIR Herbarium database and deposited in the nomenclatural types section of the Herbarium of cultivated plants of the world, their wild relatives and weeds (WIR) and the National Center for Plant Genetic Resources of Russia.

Genrikh Adamovich Tekhanovich (1939–2023) – a Russian scientist, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, a famous breeder, the oldest employee of the Kuban Experiment Station, a branch of the Federal Research Center N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources. Genrikh A. Tekhanovich devoted his scientific life to breeding and study of varieties, as well as to the search for forms of melon crops that are resistant to unfavorable environmental factors. His research was aimed at studying the potential hereditary variability of cultivated forms and wild species of watermelon, melon, pumpkin, zucchini and pattypan squash in order to identify economically important source material for breeding highly productive varieties and hybrids. He has created more than 33 new early-ripening, highly productive varieties of watermelon, melon and pumpkins with good keeping and high taste qualities. He paid special attention to the development of bushy and short-vine varieties and hybrids, suitable for labor-free cultivation, and resistant to diseases and pests.