In 1997, when breeders from Taiwan succeeded in registering a poinsettia variety in America, Chu Chien-young, a professor of horticulture at National Chung Hsing University, who at the time was helping to revise the Plant Variety and Plant Seed Act, advocated that Taiwan ought to start breeding plants and patenting new cultivars. Otherwise, other nations would divide up the market.
1997 年，台灣通過首件美國聖誕紅品種權申請案時，當時參與《種苗法》修訂的中興大學園藝系教授朱建鏞就大聲疾呼，台灣應該趕緊做育種及註冊工作，否則在各國搶占瓜分下，花卉市場將完全掌控在他人手裡。