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3 Administration of the National System
Pages 87-106

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From page 87...
... is the lead agency. Other federal agencies, all of the state agricultural experiment stations, and some private companies and groups participate in the system.
From page 88...
... THE NPGS IN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRlCUl~TURE Management of the NPGS network is divided among several agencies within the USDA and state agricultural experiment stations.
From page 89...
... Germplasm work then became the responsibility of the New Crops Research Branch and, for some major commodities, of various field crop leaders or chiefs. In general, the ARS branch system, as this organization was informally called, centralized finance and decision making and placed line authority largely in the hands of branch chiefs as national leaders.
From page 91...
... The program leader's success in executing a national germplasm program depends largely on his or her ability to persuade or to cooperate with the eight area directors and the GMT. The GMT reviews ARS germplasm activities, offers recommendations and proposals for exploration and evaluation to the ARS deputy administrator, and discusses policy questions.
From page 92...
... It includes plant exploration activities, the Plant Introduction Office (PIO) , and the Database Management Unit that oversees the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)
From page 93...
... ARS CSRSa Arkansas Stuttgart 177,400 Arizona Phoenix 70,300 Tucson 73,700 California Brawley National clonal 40,700 36,000 Germplasm repository Davis National clonal 447,400 327,000 germplasm repository Fresno 152,000 Riverside National clonal 70,900 120,000 germplasm repository Salinas 89,700 Colorado Fort Collins National Seed 2,231,800 2,004,000 Storage Laboratory District of National 616,000 343,800 Columbia Arboretum Florida Miami National clonal 460,500 526,760 Germplasm repository Orlando National clonal 379,100 120,000 germplasm repository Georgla Byron 47,200 Griffinb Regional plant 1,306,300 1,439,460 .175,698 introduction station Tifton 104,000 Hawaii Honolulu National clonal 167,900 150,000 germplasm repository (continued)
From page 94...
... ARS CSRSa Iowa Ames/Ankeny Regional plant 1,773,500 1,307,328 353,120 introduction station Idaho Aberdeen 765,300 Illinois Urbana Long-season 529,700 273,955 soybean collection Indiana West Lafayette 279,900 Kansas Manhattan 90,300 Maryland Beltsville Plant Genetics and 4,199,100 2,344,848 Germplasm InstituteC Glenn Dale National Plant 903,200 812,900 Germplasm Quarantine Laboratory (NPGQL) Minnesota St.
From page 95...
... (dollars) ARS CSRSa North Carolina Oxford 45,900 Raleigh 490,400 North Dakota Fargo 623,400 New York Geneva Regional plant 1,256,200 825,103 131,500 introduction station National clonal 301,472 germplasm repository Oklahoma Stillwater Oregon Corvallis 291,800 National clonal 950,600 743,425 germplasm repository Pennsylvania University Park 96,900 South Carolina Charleston 405,900 Florence 44,700 Texas Brownwood National clonal 59,100 103,188 germplasm repository Bushland 128,200 College Station Cotton collection 826,600 170,989 Temple 75,000 Utah Logan 511,900 Washington Prosser 286,100 Pullman Regional plant 1,222,100 1,270,866 245,270 introduction station Wisconsin Madison Interregional Research Project-1 (IR-1)
From page 96...
... , the Plant Introduction Office, administration of NPGSsponsored plant exploration activities, the Germplasm Resources Information Network, and coordination of crop advisory committee activities. In 1989, administrative oversight of the NSGC was removed from the GSL and the facility was relocated to Aberdeen, Idaho.
From page 97...
... The position of service scientist pertains to an employee who serves as a project or program leader for, or who personally performs, work involving professional scientific services to the public or to other governmental agencies. These services include identification of animals, plants, or insects; diagnosis of diseases; mass production of plants, animals, or insects; collection, introduction, and maintenance of germplasm or specimens; vaccine production; education, extension, or technology transfer activities; and nutrient data and food intake surveys.
From page 98...
... Such limitations on service-or~ented career advancement do not exist in parallel agencies, such as the Soil Conservation Service or the Forest Service. Category 4 positions are seen by NPGS scientists as professionally limiting, although they permit more freedom to address germplasm activities.
From page 99...
... He soon discovered that trees grown from San Saba seed varied tremendously in their size, shape, and growth characteristics. Nuts from these trees ripened at different times and were equally variable in shape, size, flavor, color, and shell thickness, with very few (reportedly only 2 of 1,000)
From page 100...
... The CSRS is not represented on the GMT and does not presently have a staff position delegated to address plant genetic resources programs. State Agricultural Experiment Stations The state agricultural experiment stations are associated with the land-grant universities of the United States.
From page 101...
... Other USDA Cooperators The NPGS cooperates with USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to operate the National Plant Germplasm Quarantine Center in Beltsville, Maryland.
From page 102...
... was established by the secretary of agriculture in 1975, in part because of the concerns expressed in the wake of both the 1970 corn blight and the release of the report, Genetic Vulnerability of Major Crops (National Research Council, 1972~. The NPGRB meets at least twice a year and advises the secretary of agriculture and the officers of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (National Plant Genetic Resources Board, 1984)
From page 103...
... On the committees, crop specialists include breeders, geneticists, pathologists, and entomologists who are considered the best qualified to assess the status of collections, vulnerability, improvement efforts nationally, foreign scientific developments, the impact of new technology, and how well users' needs are met (National Plant Genetic Resources Board, 1984; Shands et al., 1989; White et al., 1989~. Thirty-nine committees have been established.
From page 104...
... The Plant Germplasm Operations Committee The PGOC includes the curators of the major collections, selected ARS research leaders, and the lead people from ARS-NPGS support offices (e.g., the National Germplasm Resources Laboratory)
From page 105...
... This is the only NPGS activity where the program leader exerts a strong degree of leadership and can directly affect NPGS activities.


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