Nomenclatural standards of five iris cultivars, namely ‘Andrey Kniazev’, ‘Eduard Regel’, ‘Marishka’, ‘Temuri’, and ‘Vitosha’ bred at the Peter the Great Botanical Garden of the V.L. Komarov Botanical Institute of RAS have been prepared in accordance with the rules and recommendations outlined in the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants, and in the VIR methodological guidelines for the vegetatively propagated plants. Each nomenclatural standard is one herbarium sheet with all parts of a flowering plant accompanied by photos of flowers. Nomenclatural standards are registered in the VIR Herbarium database and deposited in the Herbarium of Cultivated Plants of the World, their Wild Relatives and Weeds (WIR) at the National Center for Plant Genetic Resources.

New findings that complement the species composition of the flora of vascular plants in the territory of the Emirate and the UAE as a whole were made during the floristic research in the Emirate of Fujairah (the United Arab Emirates – UAE) in 2017–2022. The article provides data on 8 new or rare ergasiophygophytes (cultivated and running wild plant species) from the Moraceae family, alien to the Emirate of Fujairah. These are Ficus amplissima Sm., F. benghalensis L., F. benjamina L., F. carica L., F. microcarpa L. f., F. religiosa L., F. sycomorus L., and Morus albus L. Also, most of these species have never been previously listed in the Arabian floras and checklists as alien adventive.

Identification of the diversity of cultivated plants of past historical epochs provides valuable information for clarifying the ways of formation of the cultural flora in a particular region. The medieval economy of ancient northern Russia was formed on the basis of a developed agrarian culture. The revealing of the composition and origin of its traditions is an important fundamental task. The purpose of this work was to study and determine the species identity of carbonized fossil remains of seeds and fruit crops that grew in the medieval northwestern Russia. Based on the results of morphological analysis of fossil plant remains, the presence of wheat, rye, barley and oat kernels was revealed.

In 2024, we celebrate the 135th birthday of Evgenia N. Sinskaya (1889–1965). A leading expert in the taxonomy, evolution, ecology and geography of cultivated plants and their wild relatives, Prof. E. N. Sinskaya occupies a well-deserved honorable place among the outstanding Russian biologists of the 20th century.

Prof. Sinskaya was undoubtedly no less talented as a prominent scientist, but as a writer as well. We believe that Prof. Sinskaya’s scientific ideas would be best recognized through acquainting the readers with the published results of her unique research and reconsidering her theoretical works on the taxonomy, phylogeny, and the problem of populations of higher plants. Therefore, on the eve of her birthday celebration, we present a chronological list of her major publications. This list can be recommended to young Russian scientists whose scientific interests extend from theoretical issues of plant biology to practical challenges of crop cultivation. Besides, the editors of the journal Vavilovia supply a list of unpublished works by E. N. Sinskaya in an attempt to incorporate archival documents into scientific circulation, thus encouraging further detailed studies dedicated to the scientific legacy of one of VIR’s most renowned scientists.

The journal VAVILOVIA, named after the eminent Russian scientist N.I. Vavilov, is a specialized periodical scientific publication, released concurrently in digital and printed formats.