The Ministry of Agriculture recently released new rules on naming plant varieties that will take effect on April 15.

The regulation mandates that one plant variety can have just one name, which cannot be the same or similar to those with well-known trademark status.

By the end of 2011, the ministry had received more than 9,000 applications for legal recognition of new agricultural varieties, about 3,700 of which have been granted.

(Source: China Daily)