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DIVISION 18. FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS 52001-53564›CHAPTER 2. California Seed Law 52251-52515›ARTICLE 2.6. Genetically Engineered Plants 52300-52306

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California Food and Agricultural Code · 2020-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

For purposes of this article only, the following definitions apply:

(a) “Farmer” means the person responsible for planting a crop, managing the crop, and harvesting the crop from land on which a breach of contract or patent infringement is alleged to have occurred.

(b) “Genetically engineered plant” means a plant or any plant part or material, including, but not limited to, seeds and pollen, in which the genetic material has been changed through modern biotechnology in a way that does not occur naturally by multiplication or natural recombination.

(c) “Modern biotechnology” means the application of either of the following:

(1) In vitro nucleic acid techniques, including recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and direct injection of nucleic acid into cells or organelles.

(2) Fusion of cells beyond the taxonomic family that overcome natural physiological reproductive or recombinant barriers and that are not techniques used in traditional breeding and selection.

(Added by Stats. 2008, Ch. 424, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2009.)

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