Niall Green (Vice-Chairman)

Niall Green Niall is Head of Herbage and Vegetable Crops at Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture (SASA), which is part of Scottish Government and based in Edinburgh. He is responsible for Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability (DUS) tests for vegetable and some agricultural crops in the United Kingdom. Tests are also undertaken for the EU Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) and for other European Member States through bilateral agreements.

He advises UK Agricultural Departments on "Plant Varieties and Seeds" matters, represents the UK at European Union technical meetings, the Vegetable Experts meetings of the CPVO and at the Technical Working Party for Vegetables (TWV) of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV); he was Chairman of the UPOV TWV between 2006 and 2008.

Niall is a member of the IUBS International Commission for the Nomenclature of Cultivated Plants and the Nomenclature Committee of the International Seed Testing Association (ISTA); he has also participated in an EU working group on the nomenclature used in EU seed marketing legislation. He was on the organising committee of the Third International Symposium on the Taxonomy of Cultivated Plants held in Edinburgh in 1998.

Niall is also a member of the UK Plant Genetic Resources Group (UKPGRG) and is Chairman of the Scottish Working Group on Landraces and Traditional Varieties.

His main work interests are the characterisation and classification of vegetable crops, image analysis, genetics, genetic resources, cultivated plant taxonomy and nomenclature with specialist knowledge in cultivated Pisum, Brassica, Umbellifers and Allium.

SASA: http://www.sasa.gov.uk/
SASA Scottish Landrace: http://www.scottishlandraces.org.uk/
CPVO: http://www.cpvo.europa.eu/
UPOV: http://www.upov.int/
ISTA: http://www.seedtest.org/
UKPGRG: http://ukpgrg.org/

This profile was updated 20 November 2010.

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