PLUTO Search: Information on Plant Varieties

Search for plant varieties

What is PLUTO Search?

The PLUTO database contains information on plant varieties from UPOV members and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Under the UPOV Convention, variety denominations must differ from existing varieties of the same or closely related plant species. The PLUTO database offers a similarity search tool for a preliminary check to determine whether a proposed denomination is too similar to existing varieties within the same Variety Denomination Class.

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