Report of Committee of Varietal Standardization

Oakley, R. A.

doi:10.2134/agronj1920.00021962001208-90009x

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“…Ninety years ago (1919) in Chicago, IL, at the annual meeting of the American Society of Agronomy a Committee on Varietal Standardization was formed in recognition of the need to unify and clarify information from the growing number of varieties 1 which were the foundation of cultivated crops (Oakley 1920). In 1922 this committee recommended the “development of a method of registration of varieties so that new and valuable stocks may be better known and made available to more investigators.” (Agronomic Affairs, 1922).…”

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Crop Registration: The Pathway to Public Access of Plant Genetic Materials to Build Crops for the Future

Ellis¹,

Garland‐Campbell²,

Grotenhuis³

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Crop Science

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Starting in 1926 and continuing for 80+ yr, 11,241 crop genetic materials have been registered as of 31 Dec. 2008. The crop registration process is an important pathway to publically describe and document new and useful genetic materials and to incorporate these into the public domain via the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS). Crop Registration materials are now searchable via the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) and demand for registered materials remains strong with more than 9150 registered accessions distributed in the past 26 yr by the NPGS. Guidelines continue to evolve to accommodate global factors effecting germplasm exchange such as Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and international treaties (i.e., The International Treaty on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture). Together with (i) the advent of the new Journal of Plant Registrations; (ii) the facilitated search capabilities of GRIN; (iii) the development and definition of genetic materials needing registration (cultivars, germplasm, genetic stocks, parental lines, and mapping populations); and (iv) the recognition and allowance of IPR rights: the registration of crops is a healthy viable dynamic registration system to meet the needs of breeders over the next 80 yr.

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Crop Registration: The Pathway to Public Access of Plant Genetic Materials to Build Crops for the Future

Ellis¹,

Garland‐Campbell²,

Grotenhuis³

et al. 2010

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Cropping synonymy: varietal standardization in the United States, 1900–1970

Brown

2023

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This article examines crop varietal standardization in the United States. Numerous committees formed in the early twentieth century to address the problem of nomenclatural rules in the horticultural and agricultural industries. Making shared reference to a varietal name proved a difficult proposition for seed-borne crops because plant conformity tended to change in the hands of different breeders. Moreover, scientific and commercial opinions diverged on the value of deviations within crop varieties. I review the function of descriptive difference in the seed trade and in the framework of evolutionary theory before examining the institutional history of varietal standardization. Pimento peppers are used to represent how vegetables were treated differently than cereals. Lack of stability within a popular pimento variety caused problems for food packers in middle Georgia, which public breeders addressed by releasing new peppers. To conclude, the article questions the role of taxonomy in intellectual property, as breeding history and yield became defining attributes for making varietal distinctions.

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Report of Committee of Varietal Standardization

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Crop Registration: The Pathway to Public Access of Plant Genetic Materials to Build Crops for the Future

Crop Registration: The Pathway to Public Access of Plant Genetic Materials to Build Crops for the Future

Cropping synonymy: varietal standardization in the United States, 1900–1970

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