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Choose the correct options about Basmati rice. I. In 1997, an American company got patent rights for Basmati rice through the US Patent and Trademark office and was allowed to sell a 'new variety' in the US and abroad II. This new variety of Basmati was derived from Chinese farmers' varieties III. Indian Basmati was crossed with semidwarf varieties and claimed as an invention or a novelty

Answer: (B)

Solution

Statements I and III are correct — a US company did obtain a Basmati patent in 1997 and had crossed Indian Basmati with semidwarf varieties while claiming it as a novel

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Question ID VK-125671