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

From the interpretive summary: The registration of crop genetic materials is an important pathway to publically describe and document new and improved plant materials (cultivars, germplasm releases, genetic stocks, parental lines, or mapping populations) and to incorporate these new materials into the public domain via the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS). Compiling data and researching these registration materials is difficult due to registration articles being published inconsistently in three different journals over the past 80 years. Further issues have recently focused on Intellectual Property rights over the public release of the plant genetic materials and international treaties governing the use of plant genetic resources....