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Balancing incentives for innovation in new plant varieties

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At a time when food security is being threatened by climate change and population growth, regulatory systems must be designed to encourage innovation through all available technological means. Proposed changes to the concept of essential derivation will classify all mono-parental varieties as essentially derived, threatening the use of new breeding technologies to deliver crop improvement.

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  1. School of Law, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Hamish MacDonald

  2. ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Hamish MacDonald & Robert J. Henry

  3. Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Robert J. Henry

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MacDonald, H., Henry, R.J. Balancing incentives for innovation in new plant varieties. Nat. Plants 8, 1206–1208 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01246-3

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