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How to get plant breeders' rights and what protection it gives your plant varieties.
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.
What you need to do if you keep, grow, find or sell certain invasive plant species and your responsibilities to prevent their spread.
Find out how to apply VAT zero rating for the supply of those plants and seeds that are used to grow food for human consumption.
How to apply for national listing of agricultural and vegetable plant varieties in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Get help to classify edible vegetables, roots, tubers, herbs, spices, fruit, nuts and peel for import and export.
A habitat manipulation experiment that removed the flowering branches of highly attractive Prosopis juliflora from villages in Mali
Varieties of plant species that Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland) and Northern Ireland require to be registered on their variety lists.
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