Transcript 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
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Static or shrinking budgets
Increasing costs for managing PGR
Larger PGR collections
Increasing demand for PGR
Technical advances?
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$ million
USDA National Plant Germplasm Budget
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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
Number of Arrays
Cost of adopting new technology
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384
Extended Day
Number of Samples
Custom genotypes: 96-1,536 SNPs
Total samples in a 3 day period = 96-384
Expanded inventory and rate
of distribution
• NPGS will conserve • Extensive genomics
and distribute
and biotechnology
more and more
projects will
samples of
generate many
specialty crops
new genetic stocks
(often
for major crops
horticultural) and
which will be
of wild crop
conserved and
relatives.
distributed by the
NPGS.
Mismatch between expanding demand for PGR and
static or shrinking NPGS capacity to manage it?
Priorities for Genetic Resource
Management in Genebanks
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Acquisition
Maintenance
Regeneration
Documentation
and Data
Management
• Distribution
• Characterization
• Evaluation
• Enhancement
Other Strategies
• Adjustments of site priorities and
Project Plan milestones may be
necessary.
• Review and re-assignment of site
crops may be warranted.
Additional local, national, international,
multi-sector partnerships
• Partnerships will be
increasingly vital for
conserving and using
plant genetic
resources.
• Examples: MultiNPGS site efforts,
NAPCC, GRINGlobal, NORGEN,
CacaoNet