grm 2011: theme 5 -- product management

Theme 5 Closing Comments

Brainstorming, Future Activities

Theme 5 Brainstorming Session

Maintenance, distribution and

sustainability of germplasm products

produced in GCP Projects



Long term maintenance and sustainability of products Cataloguing indicates availability but does not

incorporate an explicit commitment to maintain a product to the extent possible Tools, applications, markers, databases, etc can

reside on computers Responsibility for maintenance, updating and distribution

is still essential

Germplasm particularly vulnerable to loss Recurrent costs for storage, maintenance and

distribution

No explicit statement line in proposals or product delivery plans to address the issue



Post-delivery commitment or policies incorporating mutually agreed upon principles and practices needed

Issues Contact continuity

Maintenance continuity

Sustainability

Product potential

Public interest

Human and physical resources

Infrastructure

Cost and cost recovery

What kind of policies and assistance are needed to

ensure that – no matter how varied the origins –

important germplasm derived from projects will be

appropriately maintained and distributed?

Options National gene banks

Highly varied capability Will generally take breeding materials in variable

amounts

Generally not suitable for storage of whole populations or reliable distribution

Resource limited

Regional gene banks Capabilities varied but better resources

Generally accept breeding materials

Probably not suitable for population storage

Should be assessed for distribution capabilities

Will Diversity Trust provide more funding?





CG Center Banks Most capable of storing, maintaining, distributing important

breeding materials

Highly varied policies for accepting breeding materials

Need standard policy

May have some clarification after CG reform completed

Diversity Trust to provide funding for additional materials

Undefined as to nature of these

Will likely only admit the highest valued materials if breeding materials accepted

Some may require entrance through quarantine incurring full cost recovery charge-back fees

GCP “Finishing” funds could mitigate

What kind of policies and assistance are needed to ensure

that – no matter how varied the origins – important

germplasm derived from projects will be appropriately

maintained and distributed?

Breeding programs

Could maintain all materials

Annual grow-outs

Costs mount to carry along materials of limited value

to originating program

Without proper storage facilities danger of loss

Limited resources for long-term distribution

Generally no resources for long-term storage backup

Storage resources generally suitable only for short-

term storage

Limited space for populations





All options have disadvantages as well as advantages

Overall best option is CG Centers Banks But how to submit breeding materials

Criteria not established Volume

Kinds

Will need a plan for proposal

Volume

Value

Without CG Center Bank option will need Plan B Maintenance in breeding programs, banks available





Best materials should be backed up as much as possible Program

National/regional bank

CG Bank/program

Question is distribution Storage of backup relatively easy

Distribution remains question

How much is enough?

Others maintained by programs and to the extent possible in local/regional banks Distribution contact critical

Time period

Planning

Preferred Center Gene Banks accept breeding line (including

high value populations) submissions

Most populations maintained Conditions of entry defined

Likely to vary considerable

Not all would be admitted

Plan B Rely on status quo

Center Gene Banks do not accept breeding line submissions

Maintenance in breeding programs and local arrangements Finishing funds

Define need

Planning

Inventory of resources that will be produced

Assessing value of material Time required for maintenance to ensure that potential is not lost

Background dataset

Impact potential

Years

Traits

Assessing requirement for maintenance, sustainability Resources

Cost

Proposal (white paper) to make case

Center Gene Banks

Regional networks

Diversity Trust?

Are charge-back programs for germplasm

requests an appropriate means of cost-

recovery and sustainability assistance?

Generally acceptable, but:

Depends on source of request

Developed vs developing countries

From developing countries charge-back may go

to government rather than specific program

negating cost-recovery

Two charge-back levels necessary; single

fee may be inhibitory to requests from

developing countries

Looking Ahead

Assessment of sustainability needs of all

products: Post-GCP plans

Continuity of maintenance still should be verified

Publish on IBP portal

Finish uploading RI project delivery plans

into web-based planner

Open to view and comment by project partners

Facilitate interaction, monitoring

On-site visits to project locations as possible

Entry of products to new catalogue

Continue verification process

Looking Ahead

Participation in extensive survey of a wide

audience to determine what people now

envision the IBP to become

How will the IBP fit in view of the CGIAR reform

Necessary to construct a realistic business plan

Looking Ahead

Updating IBP Business Plan

First presented at IBP launch Feb 2010

Focus on services

Must now find a niche within new framework of

CRPs or an alternative

Focus on capacity building, CoP?

Build a new community within the IBP

Focus and strengthening partnerships to facilitate

capacity building activities and molecular

breeding tool use within the framework of IBP

More attention to implementation and operations

grm 2011: theme 5 -- product management

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