Section 2(12) in The Gujarat Cotton Seeds (Regulation of Supply, Distribution, Sale and Fixation of Sale Price) Act, 2008
(12)"Variety" means a plant grouping except micro-organism within a single botanical tax on of the lowest known rank, which can be-(i)defined by the expression of the characteristics resulting from a given genotype of that plant grouping;(ii)distinguished from any other plant grouping by expression of at least one of the said characteristics;(iii)considered as a unit with regard to its suitability for being propagated which remains unchanged after such propagation;and includes propagating material of such variety, extant variety, transgenic variety, farmers' variety and essentially derived variety;
