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The National Seed Resources expands protection of varieties with high disease resistance and health functionality in South Korea

South Korea
Published Jun 29, 2022

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The National Seed Resources (President Kim Ki-hoon) announced on the 28th that it had added specific disease resistance and functional ingredients of crops to the screening criteria for variety protection this year. This is a measure that reflects the latest breeding trends. Earlier, as a result of collecting opinions from breeders nationwide from 2020 to 2021, the Seed Resources newly included the disease resistance of 17 types of 6 crops, including red pepper, tomato, melon, cucumber, rice, and watermelon, in the variety protection examination criteria. In addition, 8 kinds of functional ingredients for each of the 8 crops were newly reflected in the variety protection examination criteria. Representative examples include lycopene from watermelon and tomatoes and capsate and capsaicin from red pepper. For example, if a pepper variety is resistant to anthrax, late blight, cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), tomato spot counterfeit virus (TSWV), etc. it became possible This year, the Seed Resources expanded the disease resistance, which is the criteria for cultivar protection, to three items and three types. These include pumpkin zucchini yellow mosaic virus disease, sesame blight, and soybean blight.

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The National Seed Resources (President Kim Ki-hoon) announced on the 28th that it had added specific disease resistance and functional ingredients of crops to the screening criteria for variety protection this year. This is a measure that reflects the latest breeding trends. Earlier, as a result of collecting opinions from breeders nationwide from 2020 to 2021, the Seed Resources newly included the disease resistance of 17 types of 6 crops, including red pepper, tomato, melon, cucumber, rice, and watermelon, in the variety protection examination criteria. In addition, 8 types of functional ingredients for each of the 8 crops were newly reflected in the variety protection examination criteria. Representative examples include lycopene from watermelon and tomatoes, and capsate and capsaicin from red pepper. For example, if a pepper variety is resistant to anthrax, late blight, cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), tomato spot counterfeit virus (TSWV), etc. it became possible This ...
Source: Nongmin
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