Interplant B.V. is a pioneering company in the improvement of spray-type varieties and has developed a wide range of varieties in recent years. The undisputed leadership in spray varieties places Interplant as one of the main breeders in Latin America in Spray.
Interplant offers rose varieties in all major producing countries from Africa to Latin America. It has recently excelled in the introduction of excellent varieties for the Latin American market, has a genetic research that allows it to offer varieties of roses with unbeatable characteristics for the demand of countries such as Ecuador.
Interplant is based on a young and highly qualified team that continues to innovate in its work of hybridization and marketing to introduce highly demanded varieties. The joint work between Plantec and Interplant for more than 20 years made this breeder one of the undisputed leaders in Latin America.
Among our Representatives, we have the French Breeder Fazari Rosaplants, who maintains varieties such as Sexy Red and Quicksand that are still successfully grown in Ecuador and Colombia.
Mr. Ange Fazari was a valuable supporter of Plantec’s development as a leader in propagating rose plants. His influence on our company will always be remembered and valued.
He was a great friend and teacher.
The Delbard Company in France, with several generations involved in the development of new varieties, is a breeder with its special breeding program located near Commentry in France.
Among its successful varieties we have O’Hara and White O’Hara that allow us to offer our customers a line of varieties with aroma, characteristics of vase life, and rotation that make them favorites in the global market.
Delbard has always been an innovator in rose hybridization. In addition to the standard roses, the range includes a large number of exotic, fragrant varieties, such as Delbard’s, which can only be hybridized.
Grandiflora is a family business with three generations in its history, its 60 years in the market has allowed it to be recognized as a specialist in cut rose and is considered the leading supplier of florists in Australia.
It has over 100 varieties of roses and offers an unrivalled selection of varieties.
Its commitment is to offer the best varieties through excellence and innovation; it has a vase test room and high technology to maintain year-round production.
Plant Research Overberg – PRO Rootstocks – is the Breeder of the new and revolutionary Protatu and Protano rose standards. Plant Research Overberg was founded in 1996 by Dr. Peter A. van de Pol. It is strategically located in the heart of the Netherlands, and is dedicated to hybridizing superior quality standards for the worldwide export cut rose production sector.
The Natal Briar rose pattern and her successors Protatu and Protano are only part of their success story. PRO is a private, completely independent company, focused on helping to build a more efficient, profitable, and sustainable flower industry.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Plant varieties are recognized and protected in the country by the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador, by the Organic Code of the Social Economy of Knowledge, Creativity, and Innovation, by Decision 345 of the Andean Community and by the UPOV Convention, to which 75 countries are signatories. The Law grants a breeder’s certificate to the person or company that has created a new, distinguishable, uniform, and stable plant variety, which has been assigned a denomination that constitutes its generic designation. The breeder’s certificate is valid for 18 years for vine, forest, fruit, and ornamental tree varieties and for 15 years for other varieties.
According to Decision 345 of the Andean Community, the breeder shall enjoy provisional protection from the filing of the application until the granting of the certificate, with which they may exercise all the rights recognized in the Law in order to avoid the violation of their intellectual property rights by unauthorized third parties. The Ecuadorian Law grants the breeder the exclusive right to authorize or prohibit the exploitation of a variety, so he has the right to charge royalties to any person who intends to carry out activities of production, commercialization, sale, reproduction, propagation, among others. The competent national authority for intellectual property shall sanction those who carry out the above activities without the proper license or authorization of the breeder. These sanctions range from financial penalties to the definitive closure of the establishment where the breeder’s intellectual property rights have been infringed.