This review presents the main summary of VIR expeditions in 2023. VIR scientists conducted 7 expedition surveys of different Russia’s regions. The expedition teams monitored biodiversity and analyzed the flora of the Arkhangelsk Region (including the islands of the Solovetsky archipelago), Sakhalin, Kamchatka, Udmurtia, Yakutia, and southern Russia. Plant material in the form of seeds, cuttings, live plants and herbarium was attracted to the collection as a result of VIR expeditions in 2023. During expedition surveys of various Russia’s regions, including the Arctic, samples of almost all major crop groups were mobilized to the collection. The specimens, collected in the new expedition surveys, are to be registered in the VIR collection and then evaluated and inventoried for inclusion in the national catalog of especially valuable specimens of plant genetic resources. Herbarium specimens collected on expeditions should be registered in the VIR collection and other collections in the Index Herbariorum Rossicum, and then, on the basis of evaluation, included in the herbarium of the National Center for Plant Genetic Resources. Specimens may be assigned the status of especially valuable based on the results of inventory of existing collections of plant genetic resources
Keywords
wild relatives of cultivated plants, VIR collection, herbarium of the National Center for Plant Genetic Resources, especially valuable specimens of plant genetic resources, introduction and quarantine nursery, expedition