For the first time this year, the show will include a display
of new plant varieties being introduced for the 2006 growing season.
Your forest friends will also reward you with shop tickets so you can
buy new plant varieties to expand your garden.
If the utility patent claims seek to cover naturally occurring genomic sequences,
new plant variety patents may be subject to Mayo / Myriad - based rejections.
It was largely because of Burbank's extraordinary achievements in food science that the Plant Patent Act of 1930 amended U.S. patent law to provide botanists with a set of financial motivations to
create new plant varieties.
Today, there has been a turnaround: finances are looking up and
new plant varieties are being released.
The mountains of data can be used for a plant breeding strategy called genomic selection, which uses statistical modeling to predict how
a new plant variety will perform before being tested in the field.