Washington, DC
November 9, 2007
The U.S. Department of Agriculture
has issued certificates of protection to developers of 17 new
varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants. They
include bluegrass, fescue, oat, soybean, triticale 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 17 certificates are:
- the Moonshadow variety of
Kentucky bluegrass, developed by Pickseed West, Inc.,
Albany, Oregon;
- the Scorpion II, Regiment
II, Expedition, and Covenant varieties of tall fescue,
developed by NexGen Seed Research, LLC, Albany, Oregon;
- the Beach variety of
oat, developed by NDSU Research Foundation, Fargo, North
Dakota;
- the Stallion* variety
oat, developed by South Dakota Agricultural Experiment
Station, Brookings, South Dakota;
- the RG601NRR*, RG604RR*,
and RG607RR* varieties of soybean, developed by NDSU
Research Foundation, Fargo, North Dakota;
- the 0330738, 0387907,
0358232, and 0385457 varieties of soybean, developed
by Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri;
- the 98 and 116 varieties
of triticale, developed by Resource Seeds, Inc.,
Gilroy, California;
- the Cabernet variety of
common wheat, developed by Resource Seeds, Inc., Gilroy,
California;
- the Loreto, Sonora,
Durango, and Baja varieties of field bean, developed
by AmeriSeed, LLC, Boise, Idaho;
- the Redon variety of
garden bean, developed by Syngenta Seeds, Inc., Boise,
Idaho;
- the LS-44 variety of
creeping bentgrass, developed by Blue Moon Farm LLC,
Lebanon, Oregon;
- the Rendition variety of
tall fescue, developed by Seed Research of Oregon,
Corvallis, Oregon;
- the Kalahari variety of
tall fescue, developed by DLF International Seeds and
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Halsey, Oregon;
- the SR8550 variety of
tall fescue, developed by Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey;
- the Ambrose variety of
chewing fescue, developed by ProSeeds Marketing, Inc.,
Lebanon, Oregon;
- the Teejay* variety of
soybean, developed by Virginia Tech Intellectual
Properties, Inc., Blacksburg, Virginia;
- the NE01643* variety of
common wheat, developed by Board of Regents University
of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska;
- the Darrell* variety of
common wheat, developed by South Dakota Agricultural
Experiment Station, Brookings, South Dakota; and
- the Hawken* and Art*
varieties of common wheat, developed by Syngenta
Seeds, Inc., Junction City, Kansas.
* 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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