Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

W-6 Regional TAC meeting - July 27th, 2010,

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Meeting started at 8:25 am

Review of 2009 minutes

Motion to approve minutes Rich Koenig
Seconded - Shawn Mehlenbacher

Minutes were approved by unanimous vote

Report from NIFA - Ann Marie Thro

Change in organization with CSREES now part of NIFA with the director now being a political appointee. Goal of the new organization is to increase productivity of crops and agriculture in general.

Budget highlights

• NIFA budget up 1% with AFRI being increased 20%. The increase in these areas occurred through cuts to funding for the barley genome project and other special grants. Targeted crops for AFRI in 2011 include characterization and use of legumes. HATCH funding is flat line in the new budget.

AFRI program

• Comments on concerns dealing with targeted funding areas of AFRI being too limited and excluding too many researchers/research areas. NIFA is actively soliciting comments on the program so it can be improved in the future.
  
• It was also stressed that it will be important to report successes associated with AFRI grants to leverage more funds from Congress in the future

REE News

• New common reporting format being implemented. Competitive grant reporting will be utilizing the new format this fall. HATCH reporting will use the format in 2012. The new format will have a section for comments and will provide the researcher with the ability to go back and add impacts. It was pointed out that accomplishments and activities should be targeted to peers while the outputs/outcomes and impacts should be targeted to the general public.
  
• It was emphasized again that it is critical to mention HATCH funds in all papers and presentations and that the specific HATCH project number be included in the citation. W-6 Hatch funds showed increase in 2007 but major increase due to no earmarks that year

Director's Report and Budget - Ralph Cavalari

Plant germplasm should get increased emphasis with the current interest in plant productivity, especially in relation to climate change. One challenge is that NPGS is underfunded to do the necessary trait characterization to maximize the usefulness of the plant germplasm collection.

In terms of W-6 funding, all the Agriculture Experiment Stations support the W-6 station and supported the increased budget request for W-6. Starting October 1, 2010 the total budget was targeted at $405,288 but no raises were allowed for Washington State University so the actual budget will be $395,659 so the extra ~$9,000 will remain in the budget as discretionary funds. The full budget is included at the end of this report.

Motion to approve the proposed W-6 budget - Shawn Mehlenbacher
Seconded - Jack Martin
Minutes were approved by unanimous vote

Report from National Program - Peter Bretting

Budget

• FY09 Some reallocation of funds resulting in some increases in funding for some stations in the system
  
• FY-10 Modest increase across the board in funding

Areas that have potential for increased funding in the current budget

• $3.6 million to support increased germplasm capacity
  
• $6 to 9 million targeted at Crop Breeding and Crop Protection including support of applied breeding and breeding of perennial grains
  
• Additional funds for research related to impact of global climate change on crops/plants

Coordinated Germplasm committee - attempt to improve communication of successes of germplasm research.

International germplasm activity - some movement on two germplasm treaties

• FAO International Treaty
  
  • President signed in 2002
    
  • Congress held hearing in 2009, may pass in 2010/2011 though it will require a 60% majority for approval.
    
  • It is uncertain as to the overall impact of this treaty on germplasm collection since it only applies to a subset of crops

• Convention on Biological Diversity treaty
  
  • Currently in the last stages of discussion.
    
  • Hopefully will be submitted this fall
    
  • Aspects of treaty concern some collections and would be retro-active for some collections
    
  • Treaty is intended to cover everything not covered by the FAO treaty.

Harold Bockelman - Aberdeen

• 136,000 samples in collection - still growing, part of increase due to deposit of mapping populations
  
• Distributed 48,000 samples - 800 requests June 2009 to June 2010 with 30-50% of the requests being international.
  
• The wheat (5,400 lines) and barley (2,700 lines) have been submitted for DarT analysis.
  
• Cereal germplasm collections will be involved in a Climate Change phenotyping AFRI project if funded.
  
• Effort to respond to UG99 stem rust continue - coordinating Kenya screening nursery with an emphasis on wheat landraces.
  
• Working on GRIN-Global - targeted to be completed in 2011.

Jinguo Hu - W-6 Pullman

Highlights of submitted report:

• First year over 53% of germplasm shipments were international.
  
  • The complete safflower collection (2,300 accessions) was sent out three times
    
  • The Brachypodium collection (30 accessions) was requested 1,000 times
    
• A discussion was held on the new lab facility, it is currently on hold. The station also needs more land and greenhouse space.
  
• There was also a discussion on what to do with accessions (17,000) that have never been tested.

John Preece- Davis report

Highlights of submitted report:

• Dr. John Preece is the new research leader at the Davis repository.
  
• A new ARS facility (building) has been proposed with planning funds already used for facility design.
  
• There are 7,000 total accessions with 3,500 being grapes and 1,200 Prunus species.
  
• There were 500 requests covering about 5,000 accessions
  
• Concern was raised regarding field space limitations for the orchard collection. Attempts are being made to get 50 acres at the Sustainable Agriculture Institute for the walnut collection. Relocating the walnut collection would be a cooperative effort with the University of California, Davis providing the land, the California walnut growers providing funding and the repository responsible for the grafting, movement and maintenance of the collection
  
• The collection has an increasing virus load so an effort is being made to clean up virus infected accessions with the Clean Plant Network/System providing the funds.
  
• A discussion followed concerning the need to clean up clonal material prior to release.

Francis Zee - Hilo report

Highlights of submitted report:

• The three tropical germplasm centers are trying to back up each other to insure against germplasm loss. Avocado being the first to be backed-up due to a disease outbreak in Florida.
  
• Visited China but could not bring out germplasm due to lack of an agreement between the two countries. An agreement exists now.
  
• Currently genotyping the tropical collection
  
• Process of regenerating collection is continuing (program nearing 20 years)
  
• Continued SCRI funded project on Ohelo berry, project is at the stage of being able to release germplasm for production.
  
• Received the remaining pineapple accessions from Maui Pineapple

Kim Hummer - Corvallis

Highlights of submitted report:

• The station is now also administrating the Palmer site. Advantages include:
  
  • Combination resulted in a better team for both sites
    
  • Allowed to rearrange species responsibilities between the two locations so Ribes collection was moved up to Palmer
    
  • The rearrangement of species responsibilities resulted in freeing up both time and space at the Corvallis repository.
    
  • The species reassignment also gave the Palmer staff more accessions to work on.
    
  • Other Palmer species were redistributed to other repositories
    
  • The Peonies collection was also moved to Palmer
    
  • Material being shipped to Alaska is being screened for virus at the Palmer station
    
• The Corvallis repository has 10,000 accessions with 5,000 being distributed. The reason for the high rate of requests/distributions relate to the on-line ordering system.
  
• Research conducted by the Corvallis repository on the Ohelo berry included tissue culture, cryogenic storage and molecular evaluation.

Gabriela Romano - Parlier

Highlights of report include:

• Dr. Gabriela Romano is the new research leader at the Parlier repository
  
• 1,021 accessions regenerated with 300 accessions regenerated.
  
• 113 accessions were sent to Fort Collins for distribution to Mexico.
  
• The collection is currently being evaluated for viability.

Richard Lee- Riverside

Highlights of submitted report:

• 1,057 accessions were requested with a 68% increase in domestic distributions and a 32% decrease in international distributions.
  
• Asian citrus cyllid is expected to arrive in the Riverside area so the station is improving its screen houses.
  
• Received citrus germplasm from Florida to back-up material threatened by disease in Florida
  
• The University of California - Riverside citrus collection is currently being cleaned up and grafted to protect the germplasm.

State Reports (Please use link to see attached state reports for specific information)

Reports made in-person

California - Dan Parfitt
Idaho - Bob Zemetra
Oregon - Shawn Mehlenbacher
Washington - Rich Koenig

Reports made via conference phone

Colorado - Mark Brick
Montana - Jack Martin

Reports to be submitted but not presented

Utah - Kevin Jensen

Report to be submitted at a later date

New Mexico - Ian Ray

States not submitting a report

Alaska
Hawaii
Wyoming

Business

An interim set of officers needed to be selected due to the departure of Stephen Jones from the committee. It was proposed that the new officers for W-6 will be:

Bob Zemetra - chair, replacing Dan Parfitt who is rotating out of the chair position
Mark Brick - vice chair
Shawn Mehlenbacher - secretary

Motion to approve the new slate of officers - Jack Martin
Seconded by Rich Koenig

New slate of officers was approved by unanimous vote

Next meeting will be by teleconference and will be based out of Pullman, WA as approved by the W-6 committee in 2009 (see 2009 minutes).

Resolutions

1st resolution - The W-6 committee would like to thank Dan Parfitt for his 6 years as an officer of the W-6 committee with the last two years serving as chair of the W-6 committee

2nd resolution - The W-6 Technical Committee thanks Larry Robertson and the staff of the PRGU - Geneva for its efforts in organizing the joint regional germplasm committee meeting.

Move to accept the first resolution - Shawn Mehlenbacher
Seconded - Rich Koenig

The motion on the resolutions passed unanimously

Motion to adjourn
Seconded - Rich Koenig
Passed unanimously

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A. WRPIS scientists and curators successfully acquired new, useful germplasm through established collaborations with scientists worldwide, particularly at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in India and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Columbia, and through the generous donations from public researchers in the USA. The approximately 3,000 new accessions included 972 common beans from CIAT, 710 Canadian grasses and miscellaneous species from Dr. Stoney Wright (Alaska Plant Materials Center), 587 native plant accessions from the SOS (Seeds of Success) project, 242 lettuce from Dr. Edward Ryder (ARS-Salinas, retired) and 212 Brachypodium distachyon inbred lines from Dr. David Garvin (ARS-St. Paul, MN) and Dr. John Vogel (ARS-Albany, CA).

B. There has been a growing interest in the purple false brome (Brachypodium distachyon) collection since it was proposed as the proposed model plant for grass functional genomes research. Its entire genome sequence was recently published in the journal Nature. The sequenced diploid inbred line Bd21 was derived from PI 254867, which was collected from Iraq and maintained in WRPIS since 1959. In response to the demand of the research community, WRPIS cool-season grass and safflower Curator Vicki Bradley worked closely with ARS research groups in Minnesota and California and solicited donations of over 200 inbred lines. These newly added materials will be freely distributed to the global Brachypodium research community. Research results will have great application for improving biofuels such as switchgrass and cereals (wheat and barley) production and quality.

C. Garlic Penicillium decay, caused primarily by Penicillium allii, affects both yield and quality of garlic in the field and at higher storage temperatures. Resistance to Penicillium decay of onion, garlic and relatives, has not been reported in literature. WRPIS Research Plant Pathologist Frank Dugan identified garlic germplasm accessions with significantly greater resistance to Penicillium decay under the conditions of artificial inoculation. Compared to the susceptible control (a table garlic cultivar), one accession of garlic, two accessions of elephant garlic and several accessions of wild or ornamental onion species showed consistent and significant Penicillium decay resistance. The identified resistance sources are expected be useful for garlic improvement.

D. Faba bean ranks sixth among the worlds legume food crops. The approximately 750 accessions of USDA faba bean germplasm collected around the world are maintained in Pullman. WRPIS Supervisory Researcher Geneticist Jinguo Hu, Research Associate Soon-Jae Kwon and Cool season food legume Curator Clarice Coyne assessed genetic diversity in a subset of 155 accessions using target region amplification polymorphisms (TRAP). The study revealed that there is a relatively high level of genetic diversity in this subset and a substantial association between molecular diversity and geographic origins of the accessions. These results will promote the utilization of WRPIS faba bean germplasm and aid breeders developing cultivars with improved productivity.

E. Post-harvest burning has been a routine practice in Kentucky bluegrass seed production. However, recently imposed regulations prohibit or restrict burning in the Pacific Northwest. WRPIS Research Agronomist Richard Johnson identified Kentucky bluegrass germplasm selections with high seed yield and improved turf quality under non-burn residue management for grass seed production in the Pacific Northwest. Turf and seed production plots testing selected germplasm for improved yield under no-burn residue management were established in 2007-08. For 2008 data, selections were identified that combined good to excellent turf quality with high seed production. In 2009, a second year of data was collected on plant development, yield components and seed production on irrigated and dryland environments, and on turf quality. The results were in good agreement with the 2008 data. Seed increases of the high production-turf selections are underway and will be made available to the turf industry.

F. Dry bulb mite infestation of garlic germplasm accessions adversely affects bulb and clove quality and viability during storage. WRPIS Research Entomologist Steve Clement and Horticultural crop Curator Barbara Hellier investigated the problem of dry bulb mite in our garlic collection and obtained the following results and recommendations: 1. Mite-infested bulbs are harvested from regeneration nurseries at Pullman; 2. Mite oviposition and development proceeds after infested bulbs are placed in the Pullman storage facility. Storage conditions are optimal for this to occur; 3. Hardneck garlic accessions are better mite hosts than are softneck accessions; 4. Although bulbs will normally dry-up over extended storage times, the results show that high mite infestations accelerate the dehydration process of stored bulbs, thereby adversely affecting bulb quality; 5. It is recommended that all stakeholders (U.S. and foreign) requesting garlic be told that WRPIS accessions are likely infested with the dry bulb mite; 6. The absence of mites in bulbs harvested from plots setup in 2008 with mite-free accessions suggests that accessions in regeneration nurseries are not colonized by feral mites.

G. Lettuce is the most popular salad crop and ranks as one of the top ten most valuable crops in the U.S. The continuing genetic improvement of lettuce to meet consumer needs depends on a reliable and diverse genetic resource base with favorable traits. WRPIS is responsible for managing the USDA lettuce germplasm collection of approximately 2,000 accessions. Research Geneticist Jinguo Hu, Research Associate Soon-Jae Kwon and Horticultural Crop Curator Barbara Hellier are collaborating with Dr. Richard Michelmore, Director of the Genome Center of the University of California at Davis in fingerprinting the entire collection with the high throughput GoldenGate Assay. Three hundred and eighty-four SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) markers have been generated for the first 500 accessions. In collaboration with ARS lettuce research group in Salinas, CA, a field evaluation of 1,200 accessions has been completed and basic descriptor data were collected for entry into the GRIN database.

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Dugan, F.M. 2009. Dregs of our forgotten ancestors: fermentative microorganisms in the prehistory of Europe, the steppes and Indo-Iranian Asia, and their contemporary use in traditional and probiotic beverages. Fungi 2(4): 16-39.

Dugan, F.M. and B.C. Hellier. 2009. Managing diseases in seed garlic: What are the options? Garlic Press. 48:3. Winter 2009/2010.

Dugan, F.M., D.A. Glawe, R.N. Attanayake and W. Chen. 2009. The importance of reporting new host-fungus records for ornamental and regional crops. Plant Health Progress doi:10.1094/PHP-2009-0512-01-RV.

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Gökirmak, T., S.A. Mehlenbacher and N.V. Bassil. 2009. Characterization of European hazelnut (Corylus avellana) cultivars using SSR markers. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 56:147-172. (published online in 2008 as DOI 10.1007/s10722-008-9352-8).

Gürcan, K., S. Mehlenbacher and N. Bassil. 2009. Highly informative simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers for fingerprinting hazelnut. Acta Hort. 845:103-108.

Gürcan, K. 2009. Simple sequence repeat marker development and use in European hazelnut (Corylus avellana L.). Ph.D. dissertation, Oregon State University, Corvallis.

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