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Original Articles

Using scientific names guarantees universality of communication in science… but are plant biologists aware of it?

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Pages 1000-1002 | Received 23 Dec 2019, Accepted 25 Feb 2020, Published online: 12 Mar 2020
 

Abstract

After a survey of 603,637 titles of scientific papers dealing with twenty model and/or crop species, frequent usage of vernacular name-only, of only the abbreviated genus or other errors in indicating the scientific names were observed. A decalogue of golden rules for the ‘simple user’ of plant nomenclature is proposed.

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