Washington, DC
March 26, 2008
The
U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued certificates of
protection to developers of 12 new varieties of seed-reproduced
and tuber-propagated plants. They include bean, lettuce, pea,
rye and wheat.
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 12 certificates are:
- the Nash and Duke
varieties of garden bean, developed by Syngenta
Seeds, Inc., Boise, Idaho;
- the BANGA variety of
garden bean, developed by Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.,
Oxnard, California;
- the PS 06515293 variety of
lettuce, developed by Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.,
Oxnard, California;
- the Bergam’s Green variety
of lettuce, developed by Enza Zaden Beheer B.V., The
Netherlands;
- the Portage and Deschutes
varieties of pea, developed by Crites-Moscow Growers,
Inc., Moscow, Idaho;
- the AGS 104 variety of
rye, developed by Florida Agricultural Experiment
Station & University of Georgia Research Foundation,
Gainesville, Florida;
- the Sounder variety of
common wheat, developed by Plant Breeders 1 Inc. Moscow,
Idaho;
- the Ultra and Cal Rojo
varieties of common wheat, developed by Resource
Seeds, Inc., Gilroy, California; and
- the Fortissimo variety of
durum wheat, developed by Resource Seeds, Inc.,
Gilroy, Calif.
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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