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Article: USDA GRANTS PROTECTION TO TWENTY-FOUR PLANT VARIETIES
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 20, 2006
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service issued the following press release:
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued certificates of protection to developers of 24 new varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants. They include bentgrass, cotton, fescue, lettuce, rice and soybean.
The 24 certificates are being issued under the Plant Variety Protection Act. The certificates require 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 24 certificates are:
* The PennLinks II variety of creeping ...