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  • The Seed Industry

    Document type: Book Chapter

    Plant breeding started about 9000 to 11,000 years ago when man started with the domestication of wild plants. Farmers and growers tried to improve their crops with desired traits through trial and error. The evolutionary theories of Darwin and the genetic experiments of Mendel that were developed at the end of the 19th century gave a further impulse to plant breeding and made it more efficient. During the 20th century breeding science was further improved through knowledge of genetics, plant pathology and entomology (Bruins, 2009). The development of hybrids (starting around 1920) was the first technology in plant breeding to offer better plant varieties to growers and farmers.


  • Report of the Third Meeting of the Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on the SMTA and the MLS

    Document type: Meeting

    This is the final report of the Third Meeting of the Ad Hoc Advisory Technical Committee on the Standard Material Transfer Agreement and the Multilateral System was held in New Delhi, India, from 26 to 28 June 2012.


  • Contribution to the Benefit-sharing Fund in the context of a new e-licensing platform

    Document type: Notification

    The Secretary of the International Treaty has the honour to inform Contracting Parties of the launching by Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Syngenta) of a new e-licensing platform that generates contributions to the Benefit-sharing Fund of the International Treaty.