On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 11:09:36 +1100, "Peter Jason" wrote:

I would try the American patent office at first - there is a section on
plants and cultivars - at
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/search-adv.htm

These patents also have references to other patents and texts.

Plus, I find the very IDEA of patening a plant or animal to be utterly idiotic-- and I don't care to
hear about "business models".