ArticleCommunications biology2021
Overcoming barriers to the registration of new plant varieties under the DUS system.
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- Phenotypic Variation and Classification of Melon Germplasm Resources Based on DUS Test Characteristics.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Polyploidy: A macromutational force pushing bioeconomic developments.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Review
- Molecular Labelling Tool for Cereal Genetic Resources Management Derived from Barley and Tetraploid Wheat Genebank-Genomics Projects.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Integrating genomic prediction into crop DUS testing: new approaches in support of reference collection management and distinctness assessment.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2026Article
- Genome-wide association study (GWAS) identifies genetic loci controlling Distinctness, Uniformity, and Stability (DUS) traits in wheat.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2026Article
- Spatiotemporal stability of DUS characteristics in maize and evaluation of spatial replication testing models.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Association mapping of wheat distinctness, uniformity, and stability traits identifies evidence ofFrontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Implications of morphological and molecular distinctness on the registration of alfalfa candidate varieties issued by a breeding program: a case study.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Intraspecific Genetic Diversity Analyses of Yam (Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Integrating molecular genetics with plant breeding to deliver impact.Plant physiology · 2025Review
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- Early Seedling Screening Reveals Unidentified Al Resistance Mechanisms in Lithuanian Barley Cultivars.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Factors Influencing the Emergence of Heterogeneous Populations of Common Bean (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- What plant breeding may (and may not) look like in 2050?The plant genome · 2024Review
- Genomic insights into genetic diversity and seed coat color change in common bean composite populations.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- Identifying SNP markers associated with distinctness, uniformity, and stability testing in Egyptian fenugreek genotypes.PloS one · 2023Article
- DUS evaluation of nine intersubgeneric hybrids ofFrontiers in chemistry · 2023Article
- Genome-wide analysis-based single nucleotide polymorphism marker sets to identify diverse genotypes in cabbage cultivars (Brassica oleracea var. capitata).Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Balancing incentives for innovation in new plant varieties.Nature plants · 2022Article
- Strategies for accelerating genetic gains in crop plants: special focus on speed breeding.Physiology and molecular biology of plants : an international journal of functional plant biology · 2022Review
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Abstract
Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability (DUS) is an intellectual property system introduced in 1961 by the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) for safeguarding the investment and rewarding innovation in developing new plant varieties. Despite the rapid advancement in our understanding of crop biology over the past 60 years, the DUS system has changed little and is still largely dependent upon a set of morphological traits for testing candidate varieties. As the demand for more plant varieties increases, the barriers to registration of new varieties become more acute and thus require urgent review to the system. To highlight the challenges and remedies in the current system, we evaluated a comprehensive panel of 805 UK barley varieties that span the entire history of DUS testing. Our findings reveal the system deficiencies such as inconsistencies in DUS traits across environments, limitations in DUS trait combinatorial space, and inadequacies in currently available DUS markers. We advocate the concept of genomic DUS and provide evidence for a shift towards a robust genomics-enabled registration system for new crop varieties.
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