Australian IP report 2025
Plant varieties
Most PBR applications in 2024 were for new varieties of fruit crops (32.4% of total filings), non-cereal field crops (20.2%) and ornamentals (17.4%), as shown in Figure 5.4.
Figure 5.4 Top 5 plant varieties for volume of PBR filings in 2024, and high-volume varieties with the greatest relative growth and decline in 2024
Filings for non-cereal field crops increased by 47.7% in 2024, while filings for fruit crops also increased, by 42.5%.
Ornamentals have historically been the dominant filing class for new PBRs. Filings in this class had seen the greatest share of applications in 7 of the past 10 years. However, applications have declined in recent years and ornamentals is now the third largest class.
Applications in most classes are well represented between domestic and non-resident filers. Exceptions to this are fruit crops and vegetable crops, where over 80% of filings in 2024 were from non-residents. Field crops (cereals) are dominated by domestic filers, with 77.8% of applications in 2024 from residents.