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USDA/PVPO grants protection to 10 new plant varieties

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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 http://www.ams.usda.gov/science/PVPO/pvpindex.htm

 

 

 

 

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