What does the Certification label on a box of strawberry plants really mean?

This article is about certification box labelling. To propagate certified strawberry plants for commercial sale in Australia, each plant propagator must normally be accredited with a body such as ASPAA or VSICA. They must also have a signed non-exclusive or an exclusive sub license from a licensor who owns the variety Intellectual Property (IP) which is known as the Plant Breeders Rights (PBR). It is very common for many of these sub-licences to have clauses that state that varieties must be produced under an accreditation scheme, and of course cannot be propagated any further

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Categories: Australian Berry Journal, Autumn 22, Postharvest, Strawberry, Supply Chain