Project/Activity Number: SCC80
Project/Activity Title: Plant Breeding
Period Covered: June 19, 2008 to August 4, 2009
Date of this Report: September 23, 2009
Annual Meeting Date: August 3-5, 2009.
Participants: See Attached
· 2009-2010 Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee
· Officers
o Phil Simon, Chair (Email: )
o Todd Wehner,Vice chair (Email: )
o Rita Mumm, Secretary (Email: )
o Seth Murray, Web editor (Email: )
o Stephen Baenziger, Past chair (Email: )
· Representatives
o George Askew, Administrative advisor
o Anne Marie Thro, CSREES representative
o Roy Scott, USDA-ARS representative
o Randy Johnson, US Forest Service advisor
· Liaisons
o Stephen Baenziger, Liaison to International Plant Breeding Centers
§ Paul Gepts, Liaison to International Plant Breeding Centers
o Bill Tracy, Liaison to Private Non-Profit Breeders
o Fikret Isik, Liaison to Forestry Plant Breeders
o Pat Byrne, Liaison to CSSA Plant Breeders
o Karl Glasener, Liaison to ASA
§ Caron Gala, Liaison to ASA
o Linda Wessel-Beaver, Liaison to ASHS Plant Breeders
§ Amy Iezzoni, Liaison to ASHS Plant Breeders
o Tom Koch, Liaison to NCCPB
· Subcommittees
o Grand Challenges
§ Abdullah Jaradat, Chair
§ Marilou Arpaia, Vice chair
§ Mike Havey, Secretary
o Science, Technology and Informatics
§ Kevin Smith, Chair
§ Elizabeth Lee, Vice chair
§ Mitch McGrath, Secretary
o Communications and Outreach
§ Allen VanDeynze, Chair
§ Linda Wessel-Beaver, Vice chair
§ Pat Byrne, Secretary
o Awards and Nominations
§ Jodi Scheffler, Chair
§ Karen Moldenhauer, Vice chair
§ Brooks Blanche, Secretary
o Education and Training of Plant Breeders
§ Mitch Tuinstra, Chair
§ Donn Cummings, Vice chair
§ Jamie Sherman, Secretary
§ Rita Mumm, Past chair
Brief summary of the minutes of annual meeting:
The2009 Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee (SCC-080) meetingwas held August 3-4 in Madison, WI.The main topics were the continuing development of documents and activities to profile plant breeding achievements with the aims of expanding opportunities for graduate student training in plant breeding, educating the public, improving support for public plant breeding, and building partnerships with related groups. Reorganization of the PBCC web site was discussed and will be updated in the next year. White papers and one-page summaries have been prepared, or are being completed, for key impact areas for plant breeding.Subcommitees were reorganized (see above).
New officerswere elected where vacancies arose, and are listed above.
For the complete minutes, see:
http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/gpb/pr/pbccmain.html
Accomplishments and Impacts:
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
Publications:
All are electronic publications: http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/gpb/pr/pbccmain.html
Minutes of the August 3 Executive Committee Meeting
o Members present: Stephen Baenziger, Rita Mumm, Rich Pratt, Mike Havey, Seth Murray, Jodi Scheffler, Mitch Tuinstra, Linda Wessel-Beaver, Randy Johnson, Donn Cummings, Phil Simon, Audrey Trotman, Todd Wehner, Karen Moldenhauer, Abdullah Jaradat, Marcelo Carena
o PBCC meeting overview:
§ Thanks to Bill Tracy and Shelley Jansky for organizing this year's meeting
§ Business meeting 1 (Stephen Baenziger presiding): by law changes, wrap up 2009 issues in current subcommittees; decide whether to continue the subcommittee or move to new subcommittee structure
§ Business meeting 2 (Phil Simon presiding): future plan for PBCC; new subcommittee structure that may include:
§ Education
§ Grand challenges (bioenergy, climate change, human nutrition, food security)
§ Awards
§ Communication/common interest
§ Technology/information
§ New subcommittee meetings; election of new officers (secretary, vice chair, chair); membership list; information to congress on plant breeding; build liaisons with other groups
§ Federal view of agricultural science: NIH vs NSF structure for plant and animals systems, health and well being, energy and global change, education and education in NIFA
§ Funding for plant breeding should be placed in a solid position with the communication subcommittee
§ Business meeting 3 (Todd Wehner presiding): award presentation, how should PBCC/NAPB evolve (advocacy vs. science, public vs. private, separate vs. with other societies), next meeting in 2010 with Pioneer (Steven Smith) in Johnston Iowa, thank you to UW; thank you to grad students to attend
Program
Third Annual Plant Breeding Conference
Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center
Madison, Wisconsin
August 3-5, 2009
Monday August 3
11:00-6:30 Registration Counter 2
11:00-2:00 Poster set up Grand Terrace East, Ballroom A
11:00-1:00 Executive Committee Meeting Hall of Ideas E
(see minutes below)
1:00-2:30 Business meeting Ballroom A
Subcommittee meetings Ballroom A; Hall of Ideas E, F, G
2:30-3:00 Break Grand Terrace East
3:00-4:30 Business meeting Ballroom A
Subcommittee meetings Ballroom A; Hall of Ideas E, F, G
4:30-6:00 Business meeting Ballroom A
6:30-8:00 Barbeque Rooftop
8:00-8:45 pm Speaker Ballroom A
“Epistasis?”
Jim Holland NSCU and USDA-ARS
9:00-11:00 Cash bar Rooftop
Tuesday August 4
7:30-noon Registration Outside Ballroom A
8:00-8:15 Introduction Ballroom A
Bill Tracy, Chair, UW Department of Agronomy
8:15-8:30 Welcome Ballroom A
Molly Jahn, Dean, UW College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
8:30-9:15 Speaker Ballroom A
Optimizing experimental designs: Finding hidden treasure
Mike Casler, USDA-ARS and UW-Madison
9:15-10:00 Speaker Ballroom A
Developing forage cultivars for the Southeast: Thoughts on breeding, commercialization, and adoption
Charlie Brummer, University of Georgia
10-10:30 Break Grand Terrace East
10:30-11:15 Speaker Ballroom A
Multiple selections during domestication in Phaseolus vulgaris
Paul Gepts, University of California-Davis
11:15-12:00 Speaker
Plant breeding to basic biology and back
Liz Lee, University of Guelph
12:00-1:30 Lunch Grand Terrace East
1:30-2:15 Speaker Ballroom A
A dip in the (tertiary) genepool: Comparative structural genomics for
improved access to genes from wild relatives of potato
Jim Bradeen, University of Minnesota
2:15- 3:00 Speaker Ballroom A
An accidental breeder: A plant systematist's forays into the secondary germplasm resources of legume crops
Jeff Doyle, Cornell University
3:00-3:30 Break Grand Terrace East
3:30- 4:15 Speaker Ballroom A
Creating opportunity through wide-cross hybridization and introgression
David Stelly, Texas A&M
4:15-6:00 Business meeting Ballroom A
6:00-9:00 Remove posters Grand Terrace East, Ballroom A
7:00-7:30 Cash Bar Grand Terrace East
7:30-9:00 Dinner Grand Terrace East
Wednesday August 5
7:30-1:00 Tour of local plant breeding facilities: Seminis vegetable breeding; Dow/Mycogen field corn and silage breeding; Pioneer alfalfa breeding; UW-Madison switchgrass, table beets, and maize bioenergy breeding.