Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

The 2008 Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee (SCC-080) meeting was held June 16-18 in Des Moines, IAA. The main topics were the improvement of support for public plant breeding, and building partnerships with related groups. Invited speakers and discussion groups were used to develop ideas and solutions for improved funding of public plant breeding and graduate education. White papers have been written for most of our seven subcommittees, and one-page summaries will follow soon after. We are now discussing the level of support needed at the federal level to support our discipline. New officers were elected, and are listed below. There are now three officers per subcommittee as our new by-laws require. The elections included a vote for a new name for the public outreach part of our committee. The suggestions are listed below (the count now includes votes turned in at the registration desk during the business meeting). The executive committee voted unanimously for the name: National Association of Plant Breeders (an initiative of the Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee). Officers - Stephen Baenziger, Chair (pbaenziger1@unl.edu) - Phil Simon, Vice chair (psimon@wisc.edu) - Todd Wehner, Secretary (todd_wehner@ncsu.edu) Representatives - Mark Hussey, Administrative advisor (mhussey@tamu.edu) - Anne Marie Thro, CSREES representative (athro@csrees.usda.gov) - Kay Simmons, USDA-ARS representative (Kay.Simmons@Ars.Usda.Gov) - Randy Johnson, US Forest Service advisor (randyjohnson@fs.fed.us) Liaisons - Ronnie Coffman, International Plant Breeding Centers (wrc2@cornell.edu) - Bill Tracy, Private Non-Profit Breeders (wftracy@wisc.edu) - Steve McKeand, Forestry Plant Breeders (Steve_McKeand@NCSU.Edu) - Herb Ohm, CSSA Plant Breeders (hohm@purdue.edu) - Linda Wessel-Beaver, ASHS Plant Breeders (lwesselbeaver@yahoo.com) - Greg Tolla, NCCPB (Greg.Tolla@Seminis.com) Subcommittees Excellence in Science and Technology - David Stelly, Past chair (stelly@tamu.edu) - Craig Yencho, Chair (Craig_Yencho@NCSU.Edu) - Silvia Cianzio, Vice chair (scianzio@iastate.edu) - Joshua Udall, Secretary (jaudall@byu.edu) Globally Collaborative Agricultural System - Rob Bertram, Past chair (rbertram@usaid.gov) - Abdullah Jaradat, Chair (beth.burmeister@ars.usda.gov) - Tom Blake, Vice chair (blake@montana.edu) - Jodi Scheffler, Secretary (Jodi.Scheffler@ARS.USDA.GOV) Competitiveness, Sustainability and Quality of Life in Rural America - Marcelo Carena, Past chair (marcelo.carena@ndsu.edu) - Keith Woeste, Chair (Woeste@purdue.edu) - Sterling Blanche, Vice chair (sblanche@agcenter.lsu.edu) - Karen Moldenhauer, Secretary (kmolden@uark.edu) Safe and Secure Food and Fiber System - Travis Frey, Past chair (travis.james.frey@monsanto.com) - Dave Kendra, Chair (David.Kendra@ars.usda.gov) - Brian Scully, Vice chair (scully@ifas.ufl.edu) - Star (Yanxin) Gao, Secretary (starr@vt.edu) Healthy, Well-nourished Population - Linda Pollak, Past chair (lmpollak@iastate.edu) - Michael Havey, Chair (mjhavey@wisc.edu) - Surinder Gulia, Vice chair (gulias@fvsu.edu) - Shelley Jansky, Secretary (shjansky@wisc.edu) Harmony Between Agriculture and the Environment - Charlie Brummer, Past chair (brummer@uga.edu) - Richard Pratt, Chair (pratt.3@osu.edu) - Randy Johnson, Vice chair (randyjohnson@fs.fed.us) - Seth Murray, Secretary (scm33@cornell.edu) Education and Training of Plant Breeders - Thomas Stalker, Past chair (Tom_stalker@ncsu.edu) - David Knauft, Chair (dknauft@uga.edu) - Rita Mumm, Vice chair (ritamumm@uiuc.edu) - Mitch Tuinstra, Secretary (drmitch@purdue.edu) For more meeting minutes go to : http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/gpb/pr/pbccmain08min.html

We finalized a number of reports that illustrate the impact of plant breeding on stakeholders lives and developed our strategy for the next year. The reports can be found on our webpage: http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/gpb/pr/pbccmain.html .

All are electronic publications: http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/gpb/pr/pbccmain.html