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USDA/PVPO grants protection to 32 new plant varieties

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

 

 

 

 

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