Author(s):

Airadevi P Angadi and RC Jagadeesha

Abstract: The Govt. of India enacted “The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights (PPV&amp;FR) Act, 2001” adopting sui generis system. Registration and protection can be granted to a variety only if it conforms to the criteria of Distinctness, Uniformity and stability (DUS). It means that the new variety has to be DUS in its characteristics. This requires the examination of the variety if it conforms to the standards of DUS test. The examination of a variety for DUS generates a description of the variety, using its relevant characteristics. Very meager work is done in medicinal plants in general and in <em>Moringa</em> species for DUS characterisation. Therefore a DUS characterization procedure has been discussed for germplasm characterisation and evaluation. Descriptors for evaluation consist of traits of crop husbandry values and response to abiotic and biotic stresses.

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