Washington, DC, USA
November 20, 2009

AMS No. 205-09

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 bean, bluegrass, cotton, lettuce, ryegrass, soybean and wheat.

The 17 certificates are issued under the Plant Variety Protection (PVP) Act, which provides legal intellectual property rights protection to developers of new varieties of plants. PVP promotes progress in agriculture in the public interest through encouraging the development of novel varieties of sexually reproduced plants and offers legal protection for those who breed, develop, or discover them.

PVP certification requires 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 Croissant* variety of field bean, developed by Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo.;
• the Wallace variety of field bean, developed by Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.;
• the Gold Dust variety of garden bean, developed by Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc., Oxnard, Calif.;
• the Argos variety of Kentucky bluegrass, developed by TurfOne, Albany, OR, & Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, N.J.;
• the Bewitched variety of Kentucky bluegrass, developed by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, N.J.;
• the Blue-tastic variety of Kentucky bluegrass, developed by Pure-Seed Testing, Inc., Hubbard, Ore.;
• the DP 110 RF, DP 143 B2RF and DP 117 B2RF varieties of cotton, developed by D&PL Technology Holding Company, LLC, Scott, Miss.;
• the Winslow variety of lettuce, developed by 3 Star Lettuce, LLC, Salinas, Calif.;
• the Monument variety of lettuce, developed by Progeny Advanced Genetics, Inc., Salinas, Calif.;
• the Panterra variety of ryegrass, developed by Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, College Station, Tex.;
• the Tetrelite II variety of ryegrass, developed by DLF International Seeds, Halsey, Ore.;
• the 92Y71 variety of soybean, developed by Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., Johnston, Iowa;
• the Whetstone* variety of common wheat, developed by Monsanto Company, Creve Coeur, Mo.;
• the Jackpot* variety of common wheat, developed by Syngenta Seeds, Inc., Vernon Tex.; and
• the AP Legacy* variety of common wheat, developed by Syngenta Seeds, Inc., Junction City, Kans.

* In the United States, seed of this variety (1) shall be sold by variety name only as a class of certified seed and (2) 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 additional information, contact the Plant Variety Protection Office at tel. (301) 504-5518, fax (301) 504-5291 or through the Internet at www.ams.usda.gov/pvpo.
 

Website: http://www.ams.usda.gov/pvpo

Published: November 20, 2009