@article{20799,
      note = {organized by the International Union for the Protection of  New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) in cooperation with the  National Seed Registration Department of the Ministry of  Food, Agriculture and Livestock of Pakistan and with the  financial assistance of the Ministry of Agriculture,  Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) of Japan; Table of Contents :  Opening address by Mr. Barry Greengrass, Vice-Secretary of  UPOV, Geneva, Switzerland; Welcome Address by Mr. Syed  Irfan Ahmad, Director General, Federal Seed Certification  Department, Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock,  Islamabad, Pakistan; GREENGRASS, Barry. Introduction to  plant variety protection : What is plant variety  protection? RAHMAN KHAN, A. Role of the private sector in  the seed industry in Pakistan; Inaugural address by Dr.  Imtizaj Hussain, Vice-President of the Asia Pacific Seed  Association, Bangkok, Thailand; 1st Technical Session :  TABATA, Makoto. Technical criteria for protection; TANAKA,  Hiroki. Plant variety protection in Japan; WHITMORE, Bill.  Plant variety protection in New Zealand; 2nd Technical  Session : GREENGRASS, Barry. The 1991 Act of the UPOV  Convention; MASOOD, Shahid. Harvesting crop genetic  diversity and its preservation; 3rd Technical Session :  HUSSAIN, Akhlaq. Development and release of plant varieties  and their protection;.},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/20799},
      title = {Seminar on the Nature of and Rationale for the Protection  of Plant Varieties under the UPOV Convention : organized by  the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties  of Plants, in cooperation with the National Seed  Registration Department of the Ministry of Food,  Agriculture and Livestock of Pakistan, and with the  financial assistance of the Ministry of Agriculture,  Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) of Japan.},
      recid = {20799},
      pages = {123 pages :},
}