About Lesson
Objectives
The two-day conference, held just prior to the National Association of Plant Breeders’ annual meeting in Raleigh, NC, convened stakeholders from the public and private sectors with the goal of developing a consensus document addressing the following specific objectives:
1) Develop a statement of best practices for the use of IPR and licensing agreements for public cultivars and germplasm
2) Provide examples of effective strategies for utilizing royalty money or other funding sources to support public cultivar development
3) Explore existing technology transfer mechanisms to ensure that useful germplasm from public programs moves out of breeding plots and into farmers’ fields