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Crop Variety / Cultivar
vr.wm-liv-018 · wm-liv-018-crop-variety-cultivar
Governed variety identity and agricultural lifecycle
World Models Physical world and living systems PHY.LIV.CUL
Bundle → Layer → Finding → QuestionsClassifiersWhat it isWhy it existsDistinguishing featuresWhat robots and AI may and may not doMoral aspectsOwnersLinks to other meta-modelsIdentity and identifiersDirect propertiesRecognitionCapabilities and actionsHazards and failure modesStandards and interfacesContext of useSources
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3 bundles · 3 layers · 5 findings · 11 questions
Variety identity Which variety this is and who maintains it.
Denomination and taxon
The variety name, its species and the maintainer.
Registered denomination
The variety denomination and the register it appears in.
- Which denomination identifies this variety, and in which national or regional register?
- To which species or crop group does the variety belong?
Maintainer
The breeder or maintainer responsible for the variety.
- Which breeder or maintainer answers for this variety and its seed stock?
- Which synonyms or trade names refer to the same variety?
Rights and approval Under which terms the variety may be used.
Protection and listing
Plant variety rights and market admission.
Variety rights
Plant breeder rights and their territory and term.
- Is the variety protected by plant breeder rights, in which territories and until when?
- Which conditions apply to propagation, saving seed or further breeding?
Market admission
Listing on an official catalogue or approval for sale.
- Is the variety admitted to an official catalogue for marketing in the relevant territory?
- Was the variety obtained through techniques that trigger specific regulation?
Traits and performance What the variety does in the field.
Agronomic traits
Characteristics and tested performance.
Characterisation
Distinctness traits and agronomic behaviour recorded in trials.
- Which traits distinguish this variety from the closest known varieties?
- In which trials and environments was its performance measured, and by whom?
- Which resistances or tolerances are claimed, and on what evidence?
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- World Models
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- standalone-mm
- Navigation path
- NAV.PHY.LIV.CUL
- Domain
- PHY.LIV.CUL
- Industry
- Cross-industry
- Tags
- cropvarietycultivarphy.liv.cul
What it is Filled
A crop variety or cultivar is a named, distinct and stable group of cultivated plants within a species, maintained in cultivation and identified by a denomination registered with an authority or a breeder. The class covers the variety as a governed identity with its traits, registration and seed lifecycle; an individual plant, a seed lot and the species itself are separate records.
Why it exists Filled
Governed variety identity and agricultural lifecycle
Distinguishing features Filled
- A variety is a cultivated group with a registered denomination, not a taxonomic species or an individual plant.
- Its identity is maintained by a responsible breeder or maintainer, and loses value if the stock is not kept true.
- Legal rights and catalogue listing are part of the record and limit how seed may be used and sold.
- Distinct from a seed lot, which is a physical batch, and from a livestock breed, which is the animal counterpart.
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Present a variety as protected, admitted or certified without a register entry that says so.
- Repeat trait or yield claims that no recorded trial supports.
- Treat a trade name as a separate variety when it denotes an existing one.
- Facilitate propagation or sale that the recorded rights or listing do not allow.
- Drop the origin and benefit-sharing terms of genetic material used in breeding.
Only with a human decision
- Filing or amending an application for plant breeder rights or catalogue listing.
- Approving public trait or yield claims for a variety.
- Withdrawing a variety from the market.
May
- Record a variety with its denomination, maintainer, register entries and traits.
- Report plant breeder rights status and catalogue listing for a territory.
- Link trial results to the variety with the site, season and testing party.
- Flag seed offers whose variety is not admitted in the territory of sale.
Moral aspects Filled
- Farmers depend on honest variety information; wrong claims cost a whole season.
- Rights over varieties interact with farmers' traditional practice of saving and exchanging seed.
- Genetic material often comes from farming communities whose contribution should be recognised.
Who is affected
- Farmers and growers who buy seed
- Breeders and maintainers
- Communities providing landraces and genetic resources
- Seed certification authorities
Owners Filled
Steward
The breeder or maintainer who answers for the variety's identity and seed stock.
Master systems
- National and regional variety registers
- Plant variety rights registers
- Genebank accession databases
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- WM-LIV-009
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- A variety is identified by its denomination together with the species and the register that holds it.
- Rights and catalogue entries supply register-specific identifiers; genebank material carries accession numbers.
Direct properties required Filled
- Plant characteristics used for distinctness, such as plant height in centimetres and days to maturity.
- Yield measured in tonnes per hectare, with the trial site, season and management stated.
- Seed physical quality, such as thousand-kernel weight in grams and germination rate as a percentage.
- Quality traits relevant to the crop, such as protein or oil content as a percentage of dry matter.
- Each measurement needs the testing protocol and growing conditions recorded with it.
Recognition required Filled
- In the field, a variety is recognised from its characteristic traits, but reliably only by trial comparison or genetic testing.
- In trade it is recognised from the labelled denomination and lot certification.
- Easily confused with similar varieties of the same crop and with trade names covering several varieties.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- A variety can be multiplied through certified seed generations while keeping its identity.
- Its performance can be compared with other varieties in common trials.
- It can be used as a parent in further breeding, subject to the rights on record.
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Mislabelled seed leads to crop failure and disputes that surface only after harvest.
- Loss of maintainer stock lets a variety drift or disappear.
- Narrow genetic uniformity across a region raises exposure to a single pest or disease.
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- UPOV test guidelines for distinctness, uniformity and stability, and UPOV variety denomination rules.
- OECD Seed Schemes and ISTA rules for seed certification and testing.
- Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors for genebank accession exchange.
Context of use required Filled
- Used in breeding, seed certification, variety registration, farm advice and crop statistics.
- The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and the Nagoya Protocol govern access to material.
Sources Filled
- International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, UPOV
- OECD Schemes for the Varietal Certification of Seed, OECD
- International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, FAO
Open questions
- Planned model: boundary questions, research and every section remain to be written.
Machine files
Provenance
planned (registry candidate) · todo
Built from: models/runtime-index.json, ver-cy/world-models/card-supplements/wm-liv-018-crop-variety-cultivar.json
Planned entry, hidden from the catalogue until researched.