Washington, DC
March 18, 2008
The
U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued certificates of
protection to developers of 10 new varieties of seed-reproduced
and tuber-propagated plants. They include fescue, lettuce,
peanut, potato and tomato.
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 10 certificates are:
- the Hoedown variety of
tall fescue, developed by Cascade International Seed
Company, Aumsville, Oregon;
- the Firefly* variety of
hard fescue, developed by Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey;
- the Raptor variety of
tall fescue, developed by DLF International Seeds and
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Halsey ,
Oregon;
- the Lettony variety of
lettuce, developed by Enza Zaden Beheer B.V., The
Netherlands;
- the AT-3085RO variety of
peanut, developed by Golden Peanut Company, LLC,
Alpharetta, Georgia;
- the Silverton Russet
variety of potato, developed by President, Colorado
Certified Potato Growers’Assn., Inc., Monte Vista, Colorado;
- the Marcy variety of
potato, developed by Cornell University, Ithaca, New
York;
- the White Pearl* variety
of potato, developed by Wisconsin Alumni Research
Foundation, Madison, Wisconsin;
- the AC Glacier Chip
variety of potato, developed by Agriculture and
Agri-Food Canada and Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation,
Alberta, Canada; and
- the FDR 15-2079 variety of
tomato, developed by Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.,
Oxnard, California.
* 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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