California Code of Regulations › Title 3 - Food and Agriculture › Division 4 - Plant Industry › Chapter 3 - Entomology and Plant Quarantine › Subchapter 2 - Nursery Stock › Article 3 - Registration and Certification of Deciduous Fruit and Nut Trees › Section 3015.1 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
					 "Virus-infected" means infected by a virus or having symptoms or behavior
					 characteristic of a virus disease listed in this article.
(b) "Index" means testing a plant for
					 specific virus infection using specific indicator plants listed in Sections
					 3015.3 and
					 3015.4.
(c) "Off-type" means different from the
					 variety or selection listed on the application for registration or
					 certification.
(d) "Registered"
					 means that a registration number has been assigned by the Department to a tree
					 that has been inspected and tested in accordance with the provisions of this
					 article to serve as a source of propagating material for certified nursery
					 stock.
(e) "Foundation block" means
					 a planting of trees, maintained by the University of California, which are to
					 serve as a primary source of propagating material.
(f) "Mother block" means a planting of trees
					 to be registered and maintained by an applicant as a source for growing
					 certified nursery stock.
(g)
					 "Nursery increase block" means a planting of nursery stock which may be used as
					 a propagating source to produce registered stock for the growing of certified
					 nursery stock, or which may be used for growing trees which may be planted in a
					 scion orchard.
(h) "Scion orchard"
					 means an orchard planting of trees which may be registered to serve as a source
					 of registered scion wood for the growing of certified nursery stock.
(i) "Certified block" means a planting of
					 nursery stock for the production of certified nursery stock.
(j) "Foundation stock" means propagative
					 material from the foundation block.
(k) "Registered stock" means propagating
					 material produced in a mother block, in a nursery increase block, from
					 registered trees in a scion orchard, and/or seed or liners grown from seed from
					 registered seed source trees.
(l)
					 "Certified nursery stock" means yearling or younger trees propagated from
					 registered stock and certified in accordance with the provisions of this
					 article.
(m) "Virus-tested" means
					 tested for virus or other graft-transmissible disease listed in and using
					 procedures outlined in this article.
(n) "Seed source tree" means a tree which may
					 be tested and registered to produce registered seed.
1.
						Amendment of Article 3 (§§
												3015-3018) filed 11-8-68; effective
						thirtieth day thereafter (Register 68, No. 42). For history of former article,
						see Registers 62, No. 8, and 63, No. 6.
2. Amendment of subsection
						(m) and new subsections (o) and (p) filed 1-19-79; effective thirtieth day
						thereafter (Register 79, No. 3).
3. Renumbering and amendment of
						former Section
						3015 to Section
						3015.1 filed 12-30-83; effective
						thirtieth day thereafter (Register 84, No. 1).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						  407
						  and
						  5823,
						  Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Sections
						  5821-
						  5822,
						  Food and Agricultural Code.