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O P T I M A N E W S L E T T E R O P T I M A N E W S L E T T E R O P T I M A N E W S L E T T E R After a first preparatory year, during which the new team familiarised itself with its tasks and set up the necessary procedures and routines, the Secretariat now feels fully operational, able and willing to cope with its many and far from trivial duties. It is hoped that in the months to come the contacts with the general membership, and also with the Commissions and other organisms of our Organisation, can be rebuilt and intensified. Considerable attention is devoted, in particular, to the design and updating of the OPTIMA Web page, an instrument of which, we hope, the members will mak good and frequent use. Visit us soon at www.optima-bot.org! DEATHS Sadly, we have to report the demise of several OPTIMA members, well known within and far beyond our Organisation. We apologise for possible omissions in this list. Rodolfo Pichi Sermolli, Italy, died 22 April 2005. Suzette Puech, France, died 3 February 2006. Dimitrios Babalonas, Greece, died 14 March 2006. Max Dübendorfer-Derrer, Switzeralnd, died 5 April 2006. Pierre Broussalis, Turkey, died in August 2006. Günther Kunkel, Spain, died 4 September 2007. Carmela Cortini Pedrotti, Italy, died 29 April 2007. Nicola Diklić, Republic of Serbia, died 16 November 2008. Hellmut Baummann, Switzeralnd, died January 2009. Ernest Mayer, Slovenia, died 17 March 2009. Obituaries of Carmela Cortini Pedrotti (vol. 17), Pierre Broussalis and Nicola Diklić (vol. 18) have been published in Flora Mediterranea. UPDATES ON COMMISSIONS PUBLICATIONS COMMISSION Chair: F. M. Raimondo, Palermo Secretary/Treasurer: G. Domina, Palermo Members: J. Iriondo, Madrid S. L. Jury, Reading W. Greuter, Berlin U. Plitman, Jerusalem 2004. The Herbarium Mediterraneum published the 14th volume of Flora Mediterranea, which was distributed to the regular members of OPTIMA free of charge. Volume 17 of Bocconea on the III Iter Mediterraneum to Sicily in 1990 was also published. 2005. The Herbarium Mediterraneum published the 15th volume of Flora Mediterranea, which was distributed to the regular members of OPTIMA free of charge. Volume 18 of Bocconea, entitled, “Identification key and description of mediterranean maquis litter micro-fungi”, by M. Pasqualetti, was also published. 2006. The Herbarium Mediterraneum published the 16th volume of Flora Mediterranea, which was distributed to the regular members of OPTIMA free of charge. Volume 19 of Bocconea, entitled “Proceedings of the VI Conference on Plant Taxonomy Alghero, 31 May – 2 June 2003”, was also published.The Commission met in Pisa (2007). In 2007 and 2008 the Herbarium Mediterraneum published the 17th and 18th volume of Flora Mediterranea, which were distributed to the regular members of OPTIMA free of charge. Volume 20 of Bocconea, entitled “A catalogue of plants growing in Sicily”, and volume 21, entitled “Proceedings of the XI OPTIMA Meeting Beograd, 5- 11 September 2004”, were also published. Publication of the Newsletter is being resumed in 2009, in electronic format for distribution to the membership and in a low number of hard copies (150), for archival purposes and distribution to Institutional Members. Personal members may purchase the Newsletter for an extra 5 €. 12 OPTIMA Newsletter No. 38 May 2009
O P T I M A N E W S L E T T E R O P T I M A N E W S L E T T E R O P T I M A N E W S L E T T E R COMMISSION FOR THREATENED PLANTS (FORMERLY: COMMISSION FOR THE CONSERVATION AND SUS- TAINABLE USE OF PLANT RE- SOURCES) Chair: D. Zohary, Jerusalem Secretary: J. M. Iriondo, Madrid Members: T. Constantinidis, Patras D. Draper, Lisboa T. Ekim, Ankara E. Gabrielian, Erevan V. H. Heywood, Reading A. Santos, Puerto de la Cruz 2004. At the Commission meeting held at the XI OPTIMA Meeting in Belgrade in September 2004, three priority areas of action were outlined. The first area involved the creation of new seed banks in the Mediterranean region and the establishment of a network of Mediterranean seed banks. In this respect, Commission members were to compile a complete inventory of seed banks in the Mediterranean area, and funds would be sought for the organization of a workshop to co-ordinate actions among these seed banks. In this line, two EU-funded projects entitled EN- SCONET (European Native Seed Conservation Network) and GENMEDOC (Genetic Resources of the western Mediterranean) were approved in 2004. The second priority area was the conservation of medicinal and aromatic plants in the Mediterranean. IPGRI was to be contacted and asked to revitalize these activities in the Mediterranean, and a meeting was to be organised with specialists and institutions working in this field. The third priority was the creation of a databank on selected genera of wild relatives of crops. Contacts would be made with the aim of continuing current efforts (PGR Forum Network) with emphasis on the Mediterranean region. PGR Forum Network, the EU thematic network on the in-situ conservation of crop wild relatives, held two workshops. The first, organised by José Iriondo, took place in Minorca in April 2004 and dealt with producing methodologies for the management and monitoring of European crop wild relative taxa. The second, which took place in the Azores in September 2004, focused on genetic erosion and pollution assessment. 2005. PGR Forum Network, the EU thematic network on the in situ conservation of crop wild relatives, held two workshops. The first took place in Denmark in April 2005 and dealt with threat and conservation assessment of European crop wild relative taxa. The final dissemination conference, which took place in Italy in September 2005, comprised the First International Conference on Crop Wild Relative Conservation and Use. The Commission met in Pisa (2007). it decided that in the coming six years, it will focus its efforts on the study of the reproductive biology and genetic systems of selected genera of higher plants, their distribution and adaptation to different ecological environments, in order to optimise the existing strategies for in-situ and ex-situ conservation. As possible first target genera, Tulipa and Origanum were suggested. COMMISSION FOR FLORISTIC INVESTIGATION Chair: B. Valdés , Sevilla Secretary: E.Vitek, Wien Members: S. Bančeva, Sofia R. Baldini, Firenze T. Constantinidis, Patras G. Domina, Palermo T. Ekim, Ankara M. Fennane, Rabat O. Fragman, Jerusalem D. Jeanmonod, Genève J. Mathez, Montpellier J. Molina, Montpellier F. M. Raimondo, Palermo S. Redžić, Sarajevo May 2009 OPTIMA Newsletter No. 38 13
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