ISHS Acta Horticulturae 701: XII International Symposium on Apricot Culture and Decline
COMMUNITY PLANT VARIETY RIGHTS AND NEW APRICOT CULTIVARS |
| Author: | S.F.A. Semon |
| Keywords: | Plant variety rights, technical examination, distinctness, uniformity, stability, novelty, denomination, reference cultivar. |
| Abstract:
The Community plant variety rights (CPVR) system provides European Union-wide intellectual property protection for new plant cultivars of all botanical genera and species, including inter alia hybrids between genera and species; the system is run by the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO). From its inception until August 2001, the CPVO had received almost 13,300 applications for Community rights, which includes over 730 new fruit cultivars. Prunus armeniaca L. (apricot) varieties accounted for 39 of these applications (the 4th most important fruit species), although these are long way behind the three most popular fruit species for CPVR, namely Malus Mill. (apple), Prunus persica L. Batsch (peach) and Fragaria × ananassa Duch. (strawberry), each of which has seen in the region of 140 applications being filed. The criteria to be fulfilled for the granting of a CPVR are that the variety must be distinct, uniform and stable (DUS), novel, and bear a suitable denomination. To ascertain this, a technical examination is undertaken on the candidate cultivar to observe its morphological and physiological characteristics, which in the case of apricot lasts 4-5 years. In relation to the breeding efforts of new apricot cultivars being applied for, are the current issues of interspecific hybrids of Prunus salicina × Prunus armeniaca, and the increasing importance of licensors which draw up contracts in liaison with a trademark on the cultivar. | |
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