California Code of Regulations › Title 3 - Food and Agriculture › Division 4 - Plant Industry › Chapter 3 - Entomology and Plant Quarantine › Subchapter 2 - Nursery Stock › Article 5 - Registration and Certification of Grapevines › Section 3024 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
					 "Apical microshoot tip culture" means that an
in vitro
plant
					 is created from pieces of plant 0.5mm or less in length, consisting of a
					 meristem and a few leaf primordia.
(b) "Applicant" means any person or legal
					 entity whose application has been submitted to but not yet accepted by the
					 Department.
(c) "Approved by the
					 Department" means written consent from the Department.
(d) "Budding" means uniting a single bud and
					 a rootstock cutting or growing grapevine so that both parts produce tissue and
					 form a union that allows the bud to survive and grow.
(e) "Cancelled" means registration status is
					 permanently withdrawn from grapevine(s) entered in the program and they may no
					 longer serve as a source of foundation, registered, or certified
					 stock.
(f) "Certified Nursery
					 planting" means a planting of grapevines propagated from foundation or
					 registered stock and maintained in accordance with the provisions of this
					 article.
(g) "Certified stock"
					 means propagative materials or grapevines propagated from foundation or
					 registered stock in accordance with the provisions of this article.
(h) "Common stock" means plant materials from
					 grapevines not registered in the California Grapevine Registration and
					 Certification Program.
(i)
					 "Contiguous planting" means a planting of grapevines on land that is physically
					 intact, without any separations by a public road or by any land used for a
					 purpose unrelated to the planting,
(j) "Department" means the California
					 Department of Food and Agriculture.
(k) "Disease agent" means a pathogen listed
					 in Section 3024.5.
(l) "Diseased" means infected with a pathogen
					 or pathogenic agent listed in Section
					 3024.5.
(m) "Foundation block" means a planting of
					 grapevines propagated and maintained by the University of California in
					 accordance with the provisions of this article and registered with the
					 Department as a source of foundation stock.
(n) "Foundation block candidate grapevines"
					 means grapevines that will be planted in the foundation block if all
					 requirements specified in Section
					 3024.5 are met.
(o) "Foundation Plant Services" or "FPS" is a
					 self-supporting service unit in the College of Agricultural and Environmental
					 Sciences at University of California, Davis.
(p) "Foundation stock" means propagation
					 materials or grapevines propagated from registered grapevines in a foundation
					 block.
(q) "Grafting" means uniting
					 a short detached piece of stem tissue with several buds (graft stick) and a
					 rootstock cutting or growing grapevine so that both parts produce tissue and
					 form a union that allows the buds on the graft stick to survive and
					 grow.
(r) "Grapevine" or "vine"
					 means a rooted grape plant.
(s)
					 "Intermediate source vine" means a grapevine growing in a California registered
					 increase block that serves as a source for propagation materials used to make
					 another vine or topwork another vine planted in the same registered increase
					 block or in a secondary increase block.
(t) "Notify" means communicate information in
					 writing, in person, by phone, email, or by fax.
(u) "Off-type" means different from the
					 variety of the selection listed on the application for registration or
					 certification or exhibiting characteristics of a genetic disorder.
(v) "Participant" means any person or legal
					 entity who agrees to fulfill the responsibilities of the participant described
					 in Section 3024.2(b), who has
					 submitted an application to the Department and whose application has been
					 accepted by the Department.
(w)
					 "Primary increase block" means a planting of grapevines established with
					 foundation stock and registered with the Department.
(x) "Propagative materials" means cuttings,
					 buds, budsticks, or graftsticks taken from a grapevine.
(y) "Provisional foundation stock" means
					 propagative materials taken from grapevines planted in the foundation block
					 that have completed all the required disease tests but have yet to have true to
					 variety status verified.
(z)
					 "Registered" means the Department has approved a grapevine or propagative
					 material that has been propagated, planted, inspected, tested, and documented
					 in accordance with the provisions of this article to serve as a source of
					 California foundation, registered, or certified stock.
(aa) "Registered stock" means propagative
					 materials from registered grapevines in a primary or secondary increase
					 block.
(bb) "Secondary increase
					 block" means a planting of grapevines established by a participant with
					 propagative materials from one or more of that participant's primary increase
					 blocks or from the foundation block and registered with the
					 Department.
(cc) "Suspended" means
					 registration status is temporarily withdrawn from grapevine(s) or foundation,
					 registered, and/or certified stock.
(dd) "Testing" means any test procedure using
					 plant material or its extracts to determine the presence or absence of a
					 disease or disease agent in or on the tested plant material. For the purposes
					 of this article, testing will be in accordance with the procedures adopted by
					 the Department for diseases and disease agents listed in Section
					 3024.5.
(ee) "Topworking" means budding or grafting
					 of another variety on top of existing stock.
(ff) "True-to-variety" means the same as the
					 variety listed on the application for registration or certification.
1.
						Renumbering and amendment of former Section
						3024 to Section
						3024.1 and new Section
						3024 filed 12-30-83; effective
						thirtieth day thereafter (Register 84, No. 1). For prior history, see Register
						71, No. 25.
2. Amendment of section heading and repealer and new
						section filed 6-10-2010; operative 7-1-2010 pursuant to Government Code section
						11343.4
						(Register 2010, No. 24).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						  407
						  and
						  5823,
						  Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Sections
						  5821
						  and
						  5822,
						  Food and Agricultural Code.