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Add a new plant variety to the national list
How to apply for national listing of agricultural and vegetable plant varieties in GB and NI.
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You must add your new plant varieties to the UK’s national lists if you want to market them. You could be prosecuted if you do not.
The national lists are maintained by the Plant Variety Rights and Seeds Office (
PVS), which is part of the Animal and Plant Health Agency (
APHA).
You’ll be asked if you want to continue marketing the variety every 10 years or your variety will be removed from the list.
Four new pea and bean varieties added to Descriptive List
23 December 2020 |
Varieties LG Viper, LG Sphinx, Allison and Norton have been added to the list
Spring bean varieties LG Viper, LG Sphinx and Allison have joined winter bean Norton on the PGRO’s 2021 Descriptive List.
LG Viper, bred by Limagrain UK, joins the list as the joint highest yielding variety alongside Stella.
In trials it returned a yield of 108% which is 2% higher than Lynx, the highest yielding five-year variety.
From the same breeder, LG Sphinx has a recorded yield of 103%.
Allison, from LS Plant Breeding, is a low vicine/convicine type yielding 102% – just 2% behind Victus, the highest yielding year five-year variety of this type.
After a thorough assessment of the monarch butterflyâs status, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has found that adding the monarch butterfly to the list of threatened and endangered species is warranted but precluded by work on higher-priority listing actions. With this decision, the monarch becomes a candidate for listing under the Endangered Species Act, and its status will be reviewed each year until it is no longer a candidate.
âWe conducted an intensive, thorough review using a rigorous, transparent science-based process and found that the monarch meets listing criteria under the Endangered Species Act. However, before we can propose listing, we must focus resources on our higher-priority listing actions,â said U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service director Aurelia Skipwith. âWhile this work goes on, we are committed to our ongoing efforts with partners to conserve the monarch and its habitat at the local, regional and national levels. Our conservation goal is to