Sec. 2. Public cultivar development
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Section 2 of the Competitive, Special, and Facilities Research Grant Act ( 7 U.S.C. 3157 ) is amended— in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following: In this section: The term conventional breeding means the development of new varieties of an organism through controlled mating and selection without the use of transgenic methods. The term cultivar means a variety of a species of plant that has been intentionally selected for use in cultivation because of the improved characteristics of that variety of the species.
The term public cultivar means a cultivar that is the commercially available uniform end product of a publicly funded breeding program that has been sufficiently tested to demonstrate improved characteristics and stable performance. ; and by adding at the end the following: Of the amount of grants made under subsections
(b)and (c), the Secretary of Agriculture (referred to in this subsection as the Secretary ) shall ensure that not less than $50,000,000 for each fiscal year is used for competitive research grants that support the development of public cultivars. In making grants under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall give priority to high-potential research projects that lead to the release of public cultivars. The Secretary shall ensure that the terms and renewal process for any competitive grants made under subsection
(b)facilitate the development and commercialization of public cultivars through long-term grants not less than 5 years in length. Not later than October 1 of each year, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report that provides information on all public cultivar and breeding research funded by the Department of Agriculture, including— a list of public cultivars and varieties of public cultivars developed and released in a commercially available form; areas of high-priority research; identified research gaps relating to public cultivar development; and an assessment of the state of commercialization for cultivars that have been developed. .
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