53. Volume 13- Number 1 - IP Australia

PLANT VARIETIES JOURNAL 2000 VOL 13 NO. 1
Register of Australian
Winter CerealCultivars
Varietal Descriptions from the Voluntary
Scheme for the Registration of Cereal
Cultivars
Recently some procedural changes have been implemented
in the operations of the Voluntary Cereal Registration
Scheme. The Plant Breeder’s Rights (PBR) office and the
Voluntary Cereal Registration Scheme are collaborating to
ensure that descriptions of new varieties, whether they are
protected by PBR or not, are made available.
The Plant Varieties Journal now includes descriptions of
cultivars registered under the Voluntary Cereal Registration
Scheme. Please note that publishing a description in the
Plant Varieties Journal does not automatically qualify a
cultivar to be protected under Plant Breeder’s Rights
(PBR). PBR is entirely a different scheme and there are
specific requirements under the Plant Breeder’s Rights
Act 1994 which must be satisfied to be eligible for
registration under PBR. However, it is possible that some
cultivars published in this section of the journal are also
registered under PBR. When a cultivar is registered under
both schemes, the current PBR status of the cultivar is
indicated in the descriptions.
A Check list for Registering New Cereal Cultivars in
the Voluntary Scheme
Breeders considering submitting a new variety to the
voluntary scheme should:
1. Clear the proposed name with Australian Winter Cereal
Collection (AWCC). The AWCC will query available
information systems to ensure that the proposed name will
not be confused with other cultivars of the same group and
issue a registration number. The timeframe for this
process will usually be less than 24 hours, and can be done
by phone, fax or by e-mail.
2. Complete a registration form, including the registration
number and forward the form to the Voluntary Cereal
Registration Scheme – either by an e-mail attachment or by
ordinary mail on a 3.5 inch a IBM formatted floppy
diskette. The breeders will be notified of the acceptance for
a new registration within one week of its receipt.
3. Send an untreated one kilogram (1 kg) reference (or
type) sample of seed to the Voluntary Cereal Registration
Scheme for long term storage in the AWCC. Please
indicate if there are any restrictions on the distribution of
this seed. Unless advised to the contrary it will be assumed
that seed samples of registered cultivars can be freely
distributed by the AWCC to bona fide scientists for
research purposes.
4. Provide a description of the new cultivar for
publication in the Plant Varieties Journal and send it to the
Voluntary Cereal Registration Scheme in Word for
Windows or in RTF format – either by an e-mail
attachment or by ordinary mail on a 3.5 inch a IBM
formatted floppy diskette. In general, a description should
contain the following headings:
• Common name
• Botanical name
• Cultivar name
• Registration number
• Registration date
• Name and address of Originators
• Name and address of Registrar of Cereal Cultivars
• Released by
• Synonyms (if any)
• Parentage
• Breeding and selection
• Morphology
• Disease Reaction
• Yield
• Quality
• PBR Status (if any)
• Acknowledgment (if any)
• Breeder
In addition, you may also include other headings if they are
relevant to the description of the variety. Please follow the
general style and format of the descriptions published in
the current issue. Please note: always format your
description in a single column, do not format in two
columns. Columns will be formatted during the
publication process.
The Voluntary Cereal Registration Scheme will
electronically forward your description to the Plant
Varieties Journal for publication. Plant Varieties Journal
reserves the right for editorial corrections and the edited
versions will be forwarded to the breeder for review before
the final publication. Publication cost will be charged on a
cost recovery basis with invoices sent directly from the
PBR office to the breeder. The nominal cost will be
$400.00 (four hundred dollars) per variety.
There is no descriptions from the Voluntary Cereal
Registration Scheme included in this issue.
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