Jimmie Turner (202) 720-8998jimmie.turner@ams.usda.gov
WASHINGTON, July 20, 2010 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued certificates of protection to developers of 19 new varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants. They include teff, fescue, oat, ryegrass and soybean.
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 19 certificates are:
-- the Tiffany variety of teff, developed by Target Seed, LLC, Pama, Idaho;
-- the Rebel XLR and Ninja III varieties of tall fescue, developed by NexGen Turf Research, LLC, Albany, Ore.;
-- the SR 8650 variety of tall fescue, developed by Seed Research of Oregon, Corvallis, Ore., and Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, N.J.;
-- the BarOptima variety of tall fescue, developed by Barenbrug Holland B.V., Osterhout, The Netherlands;
-- the UC 132*, UC 128*, UC 130*, UC 148*, UC 125*, and UC 113* varieties of oat, developed by The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, Calif.;
-- the LA99016 variety of oat, developed by Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and A&M College; and Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, Baton Rouge, La.;
-- the Paragon GLR variety of perennial ryegrass, developed by Rutgers University – Cook College c/o Dr. William Meyer, New Brunswick, N.J.;
-- the Blazer 4 variety of perennial ryegrass, developed by Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, N.J., and Pickseed West, Inc., Albany, Ore.;
-- the RJS31003, 94Y91, 94Y21, and 93Y91 varieties of soybean, developed by Pioneer Hi-Bred International , Inc., Johnston, Iowa; and
-- the D5502014 variety of soybean, developed by Monsanto Technology, L.L.C., St. Louis.
* 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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