USDA Grants Protection to 15 New Plant Varieties
November 12, 2010| |
The Plant Variety Protection Act provides legal protection in the form of intellectual property rights to developers of new varieties of plants. "A certificate of protection is awarded to an owner of a crop variety after an examination shows that it is new, distinct from other varieties, and genetically uniform and stable through successive generations," said Administrator Rayne Pegg, Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS). The US Department of Agriculture has recently issued certificates of protection to developers of 15 new varieties of seed-produced and tuber-propagated plants including brome, buffalo grass and potato.
Details of the specific varieties and their developers can be seen at http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?template=TemplateU
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