PERSPECTIVE article
Front. Plant Sci.
Sec. Plant Breeding
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1633734
The institutional responses to new plant variety protection in China in the context of Big Data
Provisionally accepted
Fenglei Yu
chang Xiao Liu*- Law School, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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Improving the new plant variety protection system is of great significance for China to complete the transformation of modern agriculture. At present, China has initially built up a new plant variety protection system with the Regulation of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of New Varieties at its core. However, the arrival of the digital era has brought far-reaching impacts and strong impacts on the traditional breeding industry, and at the same time, it also puts forward more stringent requirements on the existing protection system. Based on this, this paper will mainly use the comparative research method and literature analysis method to analyse the systems adopted by other countries for the protection of new plant varieties, and at the same time examine the shortcomings and deficiencies of the current system in China. On this basis, this paper will focus on how to improve the data application capacity, promote data sharing, establish the three-dimensional protection mechanism, and improve the benefit-sharing mechanism, so as to promote the continuous improvement and upgrading of China's new plant variety protection system.
Keywords: New plant variety, Regulation on the Protection of New Varieties, Data application capacity, data sharing, Three-dimensional protection mechanism
Received: 27 May 2025; Accepted: 03 Sep 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Yu and Liu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: chang Xiao Liu, Law School, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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