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Plant Breeding CC

Plant Breeding CC. Todd C. Wehner Department of Horticultural Science North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 Todd_Wehner@ncsu.edu http://cucurbitbreeding.ncsu.edu/. NC STATE UNIVERSITY. Who are we?. Plant Breeding CC Multi-state coordinating committee: SCC-080

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Plant Breeding CC

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  1. Plant Breeding CC Todd C. Wehner Department of Horticultural Science North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 Todd_Wehner@ncsu.edu http://cucurbitbreeding.ncsu.edu/ NC STATE UNIVERSITY

  2. Who are we? Plant Breeding CC • Multi-state coordinating committee: SCC-080 • Based in southern region experiment stations • but membership is open to all • Formed in 2006 • First workshop held February 2007

  3. Who are we? Plant Breeding CC • Groups represented: • Land-grant universities • USDA-ARS • Seed industry • Non-government organizations, including organics • Crops represented: • Fruits, vegetables • Grains, legumes • Ornamentals, flowers, turfgrasses • Forage, fiber crops, forest trees

  4. Who are we? Plant Breeding CC • Officers: • Stephen Baenziger, chair • Philipp Simon, vice-chair • Todd Wehner, secretary • Liaisons: • Ronnie Coffman, Internat. Plant Breeding Centers • Bill Tracy, Non-Gov. Organization Plant Breeders • Steve McKeand, Forestry Plant Breeders • Herb Ohm, Crop Science Society Amer. • Linda Wessel-Beaver, Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. • Greg Tolla, Nat. Council Commercial Plant Breeders

  5. Who are we? Plant Breeding CC • Representatives: • Mark Hussey, Administrative advisor • Ann Marie Thro, USDA-CSREES representative • Kay Simmons, USDA-ARS representative • Randy Johnson, US Forest Service representative • Subcommittees (each with chair and secretary): • Excellence in science and technology • Globally competitive agricultural system • Competitiveness, sustainability, and quality of life in rural America • A safe and secure food and fiber system • A healthy, well-nourished population • Harmony between agriculture and the environment • Education and training of plant breeders

  6. Why do we exist? Plant Breeding CC • Basic principles • Agriculture - the foundation of civilization • Plant breeding - the foundation of agriculture • Highlights of plant breeding: • Plant domestication • Green revolution • Heterosis • Disease resistance • Nutritionally-enhanced foods

  7. Why do we exist? Plant Breeding CC • Private plant breeders: • Signficant increase in 20th century • due to changes in our intellectual property laws • Took over some crop improvement duties • Public plant breeders: • Research: new traits, methods • Teaching: future plant breeders • Breeding: develop new cultivars • especially: wheat, peanut, sweetpotato, grape

  8. Why do we exist? Plant Breeding CC The Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee will be a forum for leadership regarding issues, problems and opportunities of long-term strategic importance to the contribution of plant breeding to national goals. http://globalplantbreeding.ncsu.edu/

  9. Why do we exist? Plant Breeding CC • Plant breeding is many activities • Collect, evaluate germplasm (public) • Research new breeding methods (public) • Train graduate students (public) • Develop improved germplasm (public, private) • Release new cultivars (public, private)

  10. Public plant breeding survey Conclusions • Few of 51 land grant universities still have plant breeding programs • One strong plant breeding university per region of the U.S. • 53% of plant breeding graduates are from 7 land grant universities • Public plant breeders remaining are poorly funded • Public plant breeders retiring may not be replaced

  11. From: Frey (1996), Traxler et al. (2005), Morris et al. (2006)

  12. Plant Breeding Students Trained in the U.S., 1995-2000 Total DomesticInternational Land Grant University degreesPh.D. M.S. Ph.D M.S. All universities 743 151 202 243 147 Univ. Wisconsin-Madison 72 22 18 16 16 North Carolina State Univ. 64 7 21 26 10 Univ. Nebraska-Lincoln 61 5 10 27 19 Cornell Univ. 54 18 5 27 4 Univ. Minnesota 48 16 11 13 8 Iowa State Univ. 44 13 13 12 6 Texas A&M Univ. 41 9 10 18 4 Michigan State Univ. 36 10 12 8 6 North Dakota State Univ. 33 3 13 11 6 Oregon State Univ. 28 4 5 16 3 Wehner and Guner, 2002 (plantbreeding.ncsu.edu)

  13. Plant Breeding Students Trained in U.S., 1995-2000 (per year) Total DomesticInternational Land Grant University degreesPh.D. M.S. Ph.D M.S. All universities 124 25 34 40 24 Univ. Wisconsin-Madison 12 4 3 3 3 North Carolina State Univ. 11 1 4 4 2 Univ. Nebraska-Lincoln 10 1 2 5 3 Cornell Univ. 9 3 1 5 1 Univ. Minnesota 8 3 2 2 1 Iowa State Univ. 7 2 2 2 1 Texas A&M Univ. 7 1 2 3 1 Michigan State Univ. 6 2 2 1 1 North Dakota State Univ. 5 1 2 2 1 Oregon State Univ. 5 1 1 3 1 Wehner and Guner, 2002 (plantbreeding.ncsu.edu)

  14. Problem Plant Breeding CC • Public breeders needed • Private breeders do not do research • Private breeders do not educate students • U.S. needs 200 PB students/year • U.S. trains 120 PB students/year • Private breeders do not work on all crops • Thanksgiving dinner will not exist! • Rolls, sweetpotato, wine

  15. What are we doing? Plant Breeding CC • Promoting communication among breeders • Different sectors: federal, state, private, non-profit • Different crops: agronomy, horticulture, forestry • Assembling information on plant breeding • Developing support for plant breeding • Identifying research, education priorities

  16. What are we doing? Plant Breeding CC • Organizing plant breeders in the U.S. • Bringing awareness of problem to the public • Federal support needed: • national-needs fellowships in plant breeding • competitive grants for plant breeding • more years per grant • support for centers of excellence in breeding • Hatch funds for experiment station support

  17. Plant Breeding CC More information • See web page at: • globalplantbreeding.ncsu.edu • Or, find in Google by entering: • plant breeding coordinating committee • Or, contact one of the officers

  18. Plant Breeding CC Thank you • Questions?

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