Washington, DC
November 19, 2007
The
U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued certificates of
protection to developers of 15 new varieties of seed-reproduced
and tuber-propagated plants. They include barley, cotton,
cowpea, fescue, orchardgrass, pea, potato and soybean.
The certificates are being issued under the Plant Variety
Protection Act. The certificates require that the varieties be
new, distinct, uniform and stable. The owners will have the
exclusive right to reproduce, sell, import and export their
products in the United States for the duration of protection.
The 29 certificates are:
- the RWA 1758 variety of
barley, developed by the U.S. Government as represented
by the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.;
- the Acala Ultima EF*
variety of cotton, developed by Bayer CropScience AG,
Monheim am Rhein, Germany;
- the WhipperSnapper and
GreenPack-DG varieties of cowpea, developed by the
U.S. Government as represented by the Secretary of
Agriculture, Washington, D.C.;
- the Titan Ltd. variety of
tall fescue, developed by Seed Research of Oregon,
Corvallis, Oregon;
- the Persist variety of
orchardgrass, developed by University of Tennessee
Research Foundation, Knoxville, Tennessee;
- the Romance variety of
pea, developed by Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc., Oxnard,
Caliornia;
- the Jacqueline Lee and
Liberator varieties of potato, developed by Michigan
State of University, East Lansing, Michigan;
- the NIDera 3289RG variety
of soybean, developed by Nidera S.A., Santa Fe,
Argentina;
- the 4189010, 6188027,
3235020, and 1486018 varieties of soybean, developed
by D&PL Technology Holding Company, LLC., Scott,
Mississippi;
- the 97M50 variety of
soybean, developed by University of Georgia Research
Foundation, Inc., Athens, Georgia;
- the Embassy variety of
garden bean, developed by Syngenta Seeds, Inc., Boise,
Idaho;
- the Justice variety of
tall fescue, developed by Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey;
- the Michigan Purple
variety of potato, developed by Michigan State
University, East Lansing, Michigan;
- the Winema variety of
potato, developed by State of Oregon by/through STBHE
acting on behalf of Oregon State University, Corvallis,
Oregon;
- the SD1092RR* and
SD1151RR* varieties of soybean, developed by
Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, University of
Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota;
- the Hamlin* variety of
soybean, developed by South Dakota Agricultural
Experiment Station, Brookings, South Dakota;
- the 4183026 variety of
soybean, developed by D&PL Technology Holding Company,
LLC, Scott, Mississippi;
- the AP604 CL* variety of
common wheat, developed by Syngenta Seeds, Inc.,
Junction City, Kansas;
- the Alice* variety of
common wheat, developed by South Dakota Agricultural
Experiment Station, Brookings, South Dakota;
- the Magnolia* variety of
common wheat, developed by Monsanto Company, Creve
Coeur, Missouri; and
- the 25W36, 25R62 and 25W43
varieties of common wheat, developed by Pioneer
Hi-Bred International, Inc., Windfall, Indiana.
*In the United States, seed of
this variety shall be sold by variety name only as a class of
certified seed, and shall conform to the number of generations
specified by the owner of the rights (84 STAT. 1542, as amended,
7 U.S.C. 2321 ET SEQ).
USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service administers the Plant
Variety Protection Act, which provides time-limited marketing
protection to developers of new and distinct seed- reproduced
and tuber-propagated plants ranging from farm crops to flowers.
For more information, contact the Plant Variety Protection
Office at (301) 504-5518, fax (301) 504-5291 or the Internet at
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