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Theme 5 Closing Comments
Brainstorming, Future Activities
Theme 5 Brainstorming Session
Maintenance, distribution and
sustainability of germplasm products
produced in GCP Projects
Maintenance, distribution and
sustainability of germplasm products
Long term maintenance and sustainability of products Cataloguing indicates availability but does not
incorporate an explicit commitment to maintain a product to the extent possible Tools, applications, markers, databases, etc can
reside on computers Responsibility for maintenance, updating and distribution
is still essential
Germplasm particularly vulnerable to loss Recurrent costs for storage, maintenance and
distribution
No explicit statement line in proposals or product delivery plans to address the issue
Maintenance, distribution and
sustainability of germplasm products
Post-delivery commitment or policies incorporating mutually agreed upon principles and practices needed
Issues Contact continuity
Maintenance continuity
Sustainability
Product potential
Public interest
Human and physical resources
Infrastructure
Cost and cost recovery
What kind of policies and assistance are needed to
ensure that – no matter how varied the origins –
important germplasm derived from projects will be
appropriately maintained and distributed?
Options National gene banks
Highly varied capability Will generally take breeding materials in variable
amounts
Generally not suitable for storage of whole populations or reliable distribution
Resource limited
Regional gene banks Capabilities varied but better resources
Generally accept breeding materials
Probably not suitable for population storage
Should be assessed for distribution capabilities
Will Diversity Trust provide more funding?
What kind of policies and assistance are needed to
ensure that – no matter how varied the origins –
important germplasm derived from projects will be
appropriately maintained and distributed?
CG Center Banks Most capable of storing, maintaining, distributing important
breeding materials
Highly varied policies for accepting breeding materials
Need standard policy
May have some clarification after CG reform completed
Diversity Trust to provide funding for additional materials
Undefined as to nature of these
Will likely only admit the highest valued materials if breeding materials accepted
Some may require entrance through quarantine incurring full cost recovery charge-back fees
GCP “Finishing” funds could mitigate
What kind of policies and assistance are needed to ensure
that – no matter how varied the origins – important
germplasm derived from projects will be appropriately
maintained and distributed?
Breeding programs
Could maintain all materials
Annual grow-outs
Costs mount to carry along materials of limited value
to originating program
Without proper storage facilities danger of loss
Limited resources for long-term distribution
Generally no resources for long-term storage backup
Storage resources generally suitable only for short-
term storage
Limited space for populations
What kind of policies and assistance are needed to
ensure that – no matter how varied the origins –
important germplasm derived from projects will be
appropriately maintained and distributed?
All options have disadvantages as well as advantages
Overall best option is CG Centers Banks But how to submit breeding materials
Criteria not established Volume
Kinds
Will need a plan for proposal
Volume
Value
Without CG Center Bank option will need Plan B Maintenance in breeding programs, banks available
What kind of policies and assistance are needed to
ensure that – no matter how varied the origins –
important germplasm derived from projects will be
appropriately maintained and distributed?
Best materials should be backed up as much as possible Program
National/regional bank
CG Bank/program
Question is distribution Storage of backup relatively easy
Distribution remains question
How much is enough?
Others maintained by programs and to the extent possible in local/regional banks Distribution contact critical
Time period
Planning
Preferred Center Gene Banks accept breeding line (including
high value populations) submissions
Most populations maintained Conditions of entry defined
Likely to vary considerable
Not all would be admitted
Plan B Rely on status quo
Center Gene Banks do not accept breeding line submissions
Maintenance in breeding programs and local arrangements Finishing funds
Define need
Planning
Inventory of resources that will be produced
Assessing value of material Time required for maintenance to ensure that potential is not lost
Background dataset
Impact potential
Years
Traits
Assessing requirement for maintenance, sustainability Resources
Cost
Proposal (white paper) to make case
Center Gene Banks
Regional networks
Diversity Trust?
Are charge-back programs for germplasm
requests an appropriate means of cost-
recovery and sustainability assistance?
Generally acceptable, but:
Depends on source of request
Developed vs developing countries
From developing countries charge-back may go
to government rather than specific program
negating cost-recovery
Two charge-back levels necessary; single
fee may be inhibitory to requests from
developing countries
Looking Ahead
Assessment of sustainability needs of all
products: Post-GCP plans
Continuity of maintenance still should be verified
Publish on IBP portal
Finish uploading RI project delivery plans
into web-based planner
Open to view and comment by project partners
Facilitate interaction, monitoring
On-site visits to project locations as possible
Entry of products to new catalogue
Continue verification process
Looking Ahead
Participation in extensive survey of a wide
audience to determine what people now
envision the IBP to become
How will the IBP fit in view of the CGIAR reform
Necessary to construct a realistic business plan
Looking Ahead
Updating IBP Business Plan
First presented at IBP launch Feb 2010
Focus on services
Must now find a niche within new framework of
CRPs or an alternative
Focus on capacity building, CoP?
Build a new community within the IBP
Focus and strengthening partnerships to facilitate
capacity building activities and molecular
breeding tool use within the framework of IBP
More attention to implementation and operations