International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants

This eighth edition of the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (2009) replaces the seventh edition of the Code which was published in February 2004 as Acta Horticulturae Vol. 647 and as Regnum Vegetabile Vol. 144. The organisation of the Fifth International Symposium on the Taxonomy of Cultivated Plants held at Wageningen, The Netherlands from October 15-19, 2007, provided a focus for the International Commission members charged with revisions of the ICNCP to meet to consider proposals to amend the Code and to prepare a further edition to take into account the changing needs of users while ensuring that the basic Principles on which the Code is based are not compromised. Prior to this Symposium requests for suggestions to amend the 2004 (Toronto) Code were sought from many interested individuals and organisations between 2006 and 2007 so that a very wide a range of views and opinions could be obtained for consideration by Commission members.