Washington, DC
July 22, 2008
The
U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued certificates of
protection to developers of 25 new varieties of seed-reproduced
and tuber-propagated plants. They include bean, bluegrass,
clover, fescue, lettuce, oat, pea, peanut, potato 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 25 certificates are:
- the Rockport variety of
garden bean, developed by Syngenta Seeds, Inc, Nampa,
Idaho;
- the Ulysses variety of
Kentucky bluegrass, developed by DLF International Sees,
Halsey, Oregon;
- the Grasslands Kopu II*
variety of white clover, developed by Grasslanz
Technology Limited, Palmerston North, New Zealand;
- the Bonsai 3000 and Cortez
II varieties of tall fescue, developed by NexGen Turf
Research, LLC, Albany, Oregon;
- the NIZ 44-4703 variety of
lettuce, developed by Nickerson-Zwaan, Made, the
Netherlands;
- the Tellmark variety of
lettuce, developed by Enza Zaden Beheer B.V., Enkhuizen,
the Netherlands;
- the Quest variety of
lettuce, developed by Pybas Vegetable Seed Company,
Inc., Santa Maria, California;
- the Gotham variety of
hard fescue, developed by DLF International Seeds and
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Halsey, Oregon;
- the Tack* and Buckskin*
varieties of oat, developed by the Board of Trustees
of the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois;
- the Banner variety of
field pea, developed by ProGene LLC, Othello,
Washington;
- the Florida-07* variety of
peanut, developed by Florida Agricultural Experiment
Station, Gainesville, Florida;
- the FL 1909, FL 2006, FL
2049, FL 1930, and FL 1922 varieties of potato,
developed by Frito-Lay North America, Inc., Plano, Texas;
- the Keystone Russet
variety of potato, developed by President, Colorado
Certified Potato Growers’ Assn., Inc., Monte Vista,
Colorado;
- the Astoria variety of
potato, developed by Saka-Ragis Pflanzenzucht GbR,
Hamburg, Germany;
- the Wallowa Russet variety
of potato, developed by State of Oregon by/through
STBHE acting on behalf of Oregon State University,
Corvallis, Oregon;
- the MELODY variety of
potato, developed by C. Meijer BV, Kruiningen, the
Netherlands;
- the Inova variety of
potato, developed by Van Rijn B.V., ‘S-Gravenzande, the
Netherlands;
- the Fineway* variety of
common wheat, developed by Northwest Plant Breeding Co.,
Pullman, Washington; and
- the Ilias* variety of
common wheat, developed by Limagrain Advant Nederland
B.V., Rilland, the Netherlands.
* 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
www.ams.usda.gov./pvpo. |
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