Innovation in Plant Biotechnology

Global Public Sector Product Pipeline

The Public Sector Product Pipeline includes information on active R&D projects globally involving plant biotechnology in the public sector. The majority of these projects are the result of public-private partnerships, and include research that has moved beyond proof of concept and at least into the confined field trial stage.

Note that all information included in the database is based on publicly-available information; individual research organizations should be contacted for more specific detail on these research projects. As such, every effort is made to update the database, but entries may not be fully inclusive of all ongoing programs.

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To bring new plant biotechnology to market it takes roughly 136 million dollars and 13 years of research and development.

The cost and time involved in the discovery, development and authorization of a new plant biotechnology derived trait.

An inventory of traits in the private sector pipeline.

CropLife Statement on European Patent Office Decision on the Patentability of Plants Obtained by Essentially Biological Processes (Case T 1063/18)

Dec 14, 2018 - News Item
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CropLife welcomes the decision of the European Patent Office (EPO) in case T1063/18 declaring Rule 28(2) as not applicable because it is in conflict with Art 53b) of the European Patent Convention. Rule 28(2) in the Implementing Regulations of the European Patent Convention excludes from patentability of plants exclusively obtained by means of an essentially biological process. CropLife also notes that the Board of Appeal also decided to remit the case to a first instance for further examination of remaining patentability requirements.
CropLife International Applauds Science and Evidence-based Decisions at the 2018 Biodiversity Convention

Nov 30, 2018 - News Item
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Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt — 30 November 2018 — CropLife International and the Global Industry Coalition (GIC) applaud the significant efforts of Parties that went into the 2018 Biodiversity Convention negotiations held this month in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, including the Fourteenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP-14), the Ninth meeting of the Conferences of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP/MOP-8), and the Third meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (NP-MOP-3).
AACC International Capacity Building on Sampling and Detection Methods for Living Modified Organism Plants

Nov 22, 2018 - News Item
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AACC international capacity building on sampling and detection methods for living modified organism plants have been a key resource for the implementation of the Convention on Biodiversity Biosafety Protocol. Find out more in this article by Raymond Shillito, of BASF. Article originally published in Cereal Foods World .

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