Pennsylvania Code › Title 7 - AGRICULTURE › Part V - Bureau of Plant Industry › Chapter 113 - GENERAL PROVISIONS FOR SEED CERTIFICATION › PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS › Section 113.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
					 have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise:
Applicant
-An individual, partnership,
					 association, cooperative or corporation applying for certification of a seed
					 crop under this chapter.
Breeder class seed
-Seed which is directly
					 controlled by the originating or sponsoring plant breeder or institution, and
					 which provides the source for the initial and recurring increase of Foundation
					 seed.
Certification office
-A unit of the Bureau
					 of Plant Industry authorized by the Department to act as its representative in
					 carrying out this chapter.
Certified
-Seed classes, including
					 Prenuclear seed potato, Breeder, Foundation, Registered and Certified which
					 meet the required standard of quality.
Certified class seed
-Seed which is the
					 progeny of Foundation or Registered seed and is handled so that satisfactory
					 genetic identity and purity for growing the desired product is
					 maintained.
Conditioner
-A processor or handler of seed
					 after harvest.
Department
-The Department of Agriculture
					 of the Commonwealth.
Field
-An individual area of land for the
					 crop under inspection, which is clearly defined by distinct lines of
					 demarcation, such as fences, roads, natural barriers, other crops, mowed or an
					 uncropped area. A field is the basic unit of certification.
Foundation class seed
-Seed which is the
					 progeny of Breeder seed and is handled so that specific genetic identity and
					 purity as designated by the originating or sponsoring plant breeder or
					 experiment station is maintained. Foundation seed may be used to produce
					 Foundation seed only with the approval of the originating or sponsoring plant
					 breeder or experiment station.
Grower
-The person directly involved in
					 growing or cultivating the seed crop entered into the certification
					 program.
Inbred line
-A relatively true-breeding
					 strain resulting from at least five successive generations of controlled
					 self-fertilization or of back-crossing to a recurrent parent with selection, or
					 its equivalent, for specific characteristics.
Norm
-The official description of the
					 characteristics of a variety.
Off-type
-A plant which can be identified
					 as not conforming to the official norm of a variety.
Open-pollination
-Pollination that occurs
					 naturally as opposed to controlled pollination, such as by detasseling,
					 cytoplasmic male sterility, self-incompatibility or similar processes.
Prenuclear seed potato
-Potato plants or
					 potato tubers which are:
(i) Produced
				  in a laboratory or greenhouse.
(ii)
				  Propagated directly from tissue culture-grown plant material.
Registered class seed
-Seed which is the
					 progeny of Foundation seed and is handled so that genetic identity and purity
					 suitable for the production of certified seed is maintained.
Rogue
-An undesirable plant in a crop such
					 as, off-type, other kind, other variety or weed.
Seed Act
-3 Pa.C.S. Chapter 71 (relating to
					 the Seed Act).
Seed lot
or
lot of seed
-A definite quantity of seed identified by a lot number or other identification
					 mark or label. With respect to Prenuclear seed potatoes, the term consists of
					 plants derived from a single disease and variety-tested source and grown in a
					 laboratory, or on one greenhouse bench or on some other discrete physical unit
					 within a greenhouse to exclude mixing of soil, water or plant tissues between
					 lots.
Tissue culture
-The axenic growth of plant
					 tissues in a synthetic medium under controlled environmental
					 conditions.
The provisions of this §
												113.1 amended under The
						Pennsylvania Seed Act of 1965 (3 P. S. §
													§
													285-1-285-11); and the act of April 11, 1929
						(P. L. 488, No. 205) (3 P. S. §
													§
													291-297); amended under
						3
						Pa.C.S. §
													§
													7111 and
						7117.
This section cited in 7 Pa. Code §
												115.451 (relating to
						purpose).