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The 'climate matching tool' helps you consider which tree seeds to plant in light of the changing climate.
How to get plant breeders' rights and what protection it gives your plant varieties.
How to apply for national listing of agricultural and vegetable plant varieties in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for integrated pest management.
How to apply for authorisation to import, move or keep specified material and the fees you must pay.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
Protocols and procedures for testing the distinctiveness, uniformity and stability (DUS) of certain agricultural and vegetable plants.
Find out how to restock trees on a site where they have been felled due to pests or disease.
How to import plants, fruit, vegetables, cut flowers, trees, seeds and used agricultural machinery from non-EU countries to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
How commercial plant growers can grow FPCS-certified stock, and find out the benefits of using it in commercial plantations.
Recurrent selection is an important breeding method for population improvement and selecting elite inbreds or fixed lines from the improved germplasm
How to import plants, fruit, vegetables, cut flowers, trees, seeds and used agricultural machinery to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) from the EU, Liechtenstein and Switzerland.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for soils.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for hedgerows.
How growers and traders can get authorised as a professional operator to issue plant passports, when you need to be authorised and plants that need passports.
Guidance, application forms and protocols for plant breeders' rights, national listing, seed certification and farmed saved seed.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of industrial hydrogen production from methane or refinery fuel gas with carbon capture for storage.
How to apply for certification, the register of growers and fees for crop and tuber inspections under the Seed Potato Classification Scheme (SPCS).
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