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NPGS Budget Status and Matching Demand with Capacity

NPGS Budget Status and Matching Demand with Capacity. P. Bretting 2008 CGC-PGOC Meeting Ft. Collins, CO. USDA/ARS National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS). Likely Trends for the NPGS. Static or shrinking budgets Increasing costs for managing PGR Larger PGR collections

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NPGS Budget Status and Matching Demand with Capacity

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  1. NPGS Budget Status and Matching Demand with Capacity P. Bretting 2008 CGC-PGOC Meeting Ft. Collins, CO

  2. USDA/ARS National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS)

  3. Likely Trends for the NPGS • Static or shrinking budgets • Increasing costs for managing PGR • Larger PGR collections • Increasing demand for PGR • Technical advances?

  4. Increased cost of long-term conservation • “A flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” • Kurt Vonnegut

  5. Cost of adopting new technology Number of Arrays 96 192 384 Extended Day Number of Samples Custom genotypes: 96-1,536 SNPs Total samples in a 3 day period = 96-384

  6. NPGS will conserve and distribute more and more samples of specialty crops (often horticultural) and of wild crop relatives. Extensive genomics and biotechnology projects will generate many new genetic stocks for major crops which will be conserved and distributed by the NPGS. Expanded inventory and rate of distribution

  7. Mismatch between expanding demand for PGR and static or shrinking NPGS capacity to manage it?

  8. Acquisition Maintenance Regeneration Documentation and Data Management Distribution Characterization Evaluation Enhancement Priorities for Genetic Resource Management in Genebanks

  9. Other Strategies • Adjustments of site priorities and Project Plan milestones may be necessary. • Review and re-assignment of site crops may be warranted.

  10. Additional local, national, international, multi-sector partnerships • Partnerships will be increasingly vital for conserving and using plant genetic resources. • Examples: Multi-NPGS site efforts, NAPCC, GRIN-Global, NORGEN, CacaoNet

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