USDA Licenses 19 Plant Varieties

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 2007 -- 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 barley, cotton, bean, cowpea, fescue, orchardgrass, pea, potato, wheat 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 certificates are:

- the RWA 1758 variety of barley, developed by the U.S. Government as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.;

- the Acala Ultima EF* variety of cotton, developed by Bayer CropScience AG, Monheim am Rhein, Germany;

- the WhipperSnapper and GreenPack-DG varieties of cowpea, developed by the U.S. Government as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.;

- the Titan Ltd. variety of tall fescue, developed by Seed Research of Oregon, Corvallis, Ore.;

- the Persist variety of orchardgrass, developed by University of Tennessee Research Foundation, Knoxville, Tenn.;

- the Romance variety of pea, developed by Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc., Oxnard, Cali.;

- the Jacqueline Lee and Liberator varieties of potato, developed by Michigan State of University, East Lansing, Mich.;

- the NIDera 3289RG variety of soybean, developed by Nidera S.A., Santa Fe, Argentina;

- the 4189010, 6188027, 3235020, and 1486018 varieties of soybean, developed by D&PL Technology Holding Company, LLC., Scott, Miss.; and

- the 97M50 variety of soybean, developed by University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc., Athens, Ga.

- the Embassy variety of garden bean, developed by Syngenta Seeds, Inc., Boise, Idaho;

- the Justice variety of tall fescue, developed by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, N.J.;

- the Michigan Purple variety of potato, developed by Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich.;

- the Winema variety of potato, developed by State of Oregon by/through STBHE acting on behalf of Oregon State University, Corvallis, Ore;

- the SD1092RR* and SD1151RR* varieties of soybean, developed by Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minn.;

- the Hamlin* variety of soybean, developed by South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, Brookings, S.D.;

- the 4183026 variety of soybean, developed by D&PL Technology Holding Company, LLC, Scott, Miss;

- the AP604 CL* variety of common wheat, developed by Syngenta Seeds, Inc., Junction City, Kan;

- the Alice* variety of common wheat, developed by South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, Brookings, S.D.;

- the Magnolia* variety of common wheat, developed by Monsanto Company, Creve Coeur, Mo.; and

- the 25W36, 25R62 and 25W43 varieties of common wheat, developed by Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., Windfall, Ind.

*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).