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NPGS Genebanks and NCPN Clean Plant Centers. Joseph Postman Plant Pathologist & Curator National Clonal Germplasm Repository Corvallis, Oregon. May 2010. U.S. National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS). Scope of Collections Pathogen Status (germplasm born pathogens)
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NPGS GenebanksandNCPN Clean Plant Centers Joseph Postman Plant Pathologist & Curator National Clonal Germplasm Repository Corvallis, Oregon May 2010
U.S. National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) • Scope of Collections • Pathogen Status (germplasm born pathogens) • Plant Distribution(dilution of NCPN efforts?) • How can NCPN benefit from NPGS
U.S. National Plant Germplasm System • 441,000 Accessions • 11,000 Species Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/
Scope of NPGS Collections: Geneva Scope of NPGS Collections: Riverside
NCGR Corvallis – Collection Summary10,500 total plant and seed accessions (5100 field plants, 7200 screenhouse plants)
ex situ clonal collections: Screenhouse Orchard
Virus Detection
Virus Elimination Heat treatment Micropropagation
Plant Distribution 2009 521 requests received 5,800 items shipped
Priorities for Genebank Testing? • Viruses that impact genebank management • Pollen transmitted (Raspberry bushy dwarf, Blueberry shock) • Accessions that are highly requested • core accessions • cultivars
Collaboration between NPGS and NCPN • Introduction of NPGS accessions to nurseries is more efficient that foreign introductions. • Include high-priority NPGS accessions in clean plant testing/clean-up. • NPGS can safeguard obsolete NCPN accessions. • ???