Plant Breeding Success Stories

Plant breeding is attracting increasing interest at many levels of the federal government (including in the White House) as a means of stabilizing our food supply. The USDA has formed an internal Plant Breeding Working Group to give advice on setting priorities for funding for research grants and infrastructure across agencies. One of the main questions to be answered is what is the impact of federal funding in plant breeding. Acting as a source of information to advise this group, PBCC is attempting to document the impacts of your programs by asking its members to provide concrete examples. Please take time to answer the 10 questions and pass the survey to your colleagues. The results of this survey will be used across agencies to guide future funding and will directly impact public plant breeding in the future.

Thank you for your time,
The Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee

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* 1. Name and Institution

Your Name

E-mail address

Institution

Crop

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* 2. Indicate all funding sources
(Check all that apply)

USDA - NIFA/AFRI

USDA - ARS

Hatch Funds (These are also known as USDA formula funds. They are often used for salary support for agricultural faculty and technicians, and to fund experiment station operating costs)

Commodity Groups

State Funding

Industry

Evans Allen (Agricultural Research at 1890 Land Grant Institutions

AFRI (Agriculture and Food Research Initiative)

OREI (Organic Agriculture research and extension initiative)

SCRI (Specialty Crops Research Initiative)

Potato Breeding

Supplemental and Alternative Crops

Other Federal

Other (please specify)

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* 3. Success Story Title

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* 4. Please insert your success story below (To be most useful, the story should be concise (250 words or less) and use language and terms understandable by the general educated public)

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* 5. What problem was addressed by this success?
(Check all that apply)

Disease or pest

Environmental stress

Yield

Quality

Other (please specify)

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* 6. Please indicate all stake holders that benefited from this success story
(check all that apply)

Growers

End-users

Consumers

Students

Plant Breeders

Other (please specify)

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* 7. Indicate the number of each type of participant in this success story

	Number	Number from a minority
Undergraduate Students	Undergraduate Students Number menu	Undergraduate Students Number from a minority menu
Graduate Students	Graduate Students Number menu	Graduate Students Number from a minority menu
Post Docs	Post Docs Number menu	Post Docs Number from a minority menu
Research Technicians	Research Technicians Number menu	Research Technicians Number from a minority menu
Other	Other Number menu	Other Number from a minority menu

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* 8. What are the outputs?
Output = (product, goods and services resulting from success e.g. varieties or germplasm released, new genetic tools etc)

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* 9. What are the impacts?
Impact = (long term, sustainable change due to success story e.g. change in disease, yield, quality including acreage planted)

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* 10. Which category below best describes this success story?

Varieties released

New germplasm (breeding line, population, etc.)

Genetic dissection or marker-trait association

Trait identification (e.g., disease resistance in a germplasm bank accession)

Breeding methodology (e.g., a novel way of incorporating exotic germplasm)

Capacity building (e.g. new courses, web sites, data base)

Other (please specify)

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* 1. Name and Institution

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* 2. Indicate all funding sources(Check all that apply)

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* 3. Success Story Title

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* 4. Please insert your success story below (To be most useful, the story should be concise (250 words or less) and use language and terms understandable by the general educated public)

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* 5. What problem was addressed by this success?(Check all that apply)

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* 6. Please indicate all stake holders that benefited from this success story(check all that apply)

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* 7. Indicate the number of each type of participant in this success story

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* 8. What are the outputs?Output = (product, goods and services resulting from success e.g. varieties or germplasm released, new genetic tools etc)

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* 9. What are the impacts? Impact = (long term, sustainable change due to success story e.g. change in disease, yield, quality including acreage planted)

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* 10. Which category below best describes this success story?

* 2. Indicate all funding sources
(Check all that apply)

* 5. What problem was addressed by this success?
(Check all that apply)

* 6. Please indicate all stake holders that benefited from this success story
(check all that apply)

* 8. What are the outputs?
Output = (product, goods and services resulting from success e.g. varieties or germplasm released, new genetic tools etc)

* 9. What are the impacts?
Impact = (long term, sustainable change due to success story e.g. change in disease, yield, quality including acreage planted)