Niall Green (Vice-Chairman)

Niall Green Niall is Head of Herbage and Vegetable Crops at the Scottish Agricultural Science Agency (SASA) in Edinburgh. He is responsible for Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability (DUS) tests for vegetable and some agricultural crops for the UK and for the EU Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO).

He advises UK Agricultural Departments on "Plant Varieties and Seeds" matters, represents the UK at European Union technical meetings, and is the UK representative on the Technical Working Party for Vegetables for the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV). He is also a member of the UK Plant Genetic Resources Group (UKPGRG).

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.

Niall is a member of the Nomenclature Committee for the International Seed Testing Association (ISTA) and participates in an EU working group on 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.

This profile was updated 01 October 2006.

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