Minutes of the Crop Germplasm Committee for Rice held ...



MINUTES

32nd RICE CROP GERMPLASM COMMITTEE MEETING

Monday, 27 February 2012

Hot Springs, Arkansas

The 32th meeting of the Rice Crop Germplasm Committee was held Monday 27 February 2012 in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Members in attendance were Georgia Eizenga (Chair), Harold Bockelman, Farman Jodari, Dwight Kanter, Jim Oard, Clarissa Maroon-Lango Anna McClung, Karen Moldenhauer, Xueyan Sha, Qiming Shao, M.O. Way, Wengui Yan. Member participating via conference call were James Correll, Peter Bretting, and Jack Okamuro. Members not present were James Gibbons and Mark Bohning. Gary Kinard, Research Leader of the National Germplasm Resources Unit in Beltsville, MD was present representing Mark Bohning. Guests in attendance were Debbie Ahrent, Donn Beighley, Virgina Boyett, Rolfe Bryant, Eddie Castaneda, Hanlin Du, Ken Foster, Kirk Johnson, James Silva, Rodante Tabien, and Ted Wilson.

The minutes of the 31st Rice Crop Germplasm Committee held 3 February 2011 in Beaumont, Texas were read and approved by a motion from Karen Moldenhauer, seconded by Dwight Kanter, and supported by the other committee members.

Peter Bretting and Jack Okamuro (USDA/ARS NPS) reported the final USDA/ARS budget included a 3.5% decrease and closure of nine locations and one program including the genebank at Palmer, AK. There is significant cost in closing locations and the rest of the agency is impacted by covering these costs. The FY13 budget proposed modest increase ($581,000) for the NPGS (National Plant Germplasm System) to evaluate the response of maize, rice and wheat germplasm to heat, drought, cold and water use efficiency. There was an increase in germplasm distribution from 150,000 to 200,000 accessions, in part due to GRIN-Global being implemented. National Program 301 which includes the NPGS, underwent an external review of the past five years (2006-2011) in October 2011 which stated that overall the NPGS was performing high-quality research. Currently the Action Plan for the next five years is being developed with an emphasis on high through-put genotyping and phenotyping.

Peter reported that USDA/ARS NPGS has partnered with the Bioversity and GCDT (Global Crop Diversity Trust) on a three year project to transform GRIN to GRIN-Global. GRIN-Global was released to the international community in December 2011 and will be implemented within the NPGS starting in late 2012. The National Plant Germplasm Coordination Committee composed of members from ARS, NIFA and SAES has goals of promoting the NPGS so its materials are better utilized and facilitating coordination between the three agencies.

Regarding the international treaty (IT), it is hoped that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will schedule hearings on the FAO Treaty as a prelude to the full Senate vote for consent (or not) to the IT ratification. Also, the Convention on Biodiversity is negotiating the Nagoya Protocol. Both of these treaties will affect U.S. users of germplasm depending on whether the USA is party to these treaties or not.

Gary Kinard stated there are 42 germplasm committees for the various crops and thanked everyone for their service. Gary then highlighted four areas from his report, the first is that Plant Exploration and Exchange proposals are currently being accepted for FY13. Second, the taxonomy for plants used in GRIN is currently being updated which includes verifying the scientific names. One project currently underway is to provide thorough coverage of the wild relatives of all crop species, including the primary, secondary and tertiary gene pools and this is currently available for comment. Third, regarding the PI (Plant Introduction) documentation, all the volumes (1898-1997) have been digitized in conjunction with the National Agricultural Library and these are currently available on the NPGS website. Fourth, the NPGS personnel in Beltsville work with APHIS to facilitated the movement of materials to/from international sources. Gary mentioned that the GRIN-Global effort is being lead by personnel in Ames, IA and Beltsville, MD. The virtual meeting of the CGC Chairs which was held Oct. 26, 2011, had more than 35 participants and many of the items covered in this meeting were part of the agenda.

Harold Bockelman (USDA/ARS NSGC) reported that the size of the rice collection is about the same as reported in 2011. There were 15 new PI assignments for a total of 18,729 accessions. Of these accessions, 253 are not cultivated rice, Oryza sativa and this includes the 175 O. glaberrima accessions. The NSGC rice core collection includes 1,794 accessions. Many of the seed requests are from overseas. A total of 20,000 accessions from the Aberdeen Small Grains collection was sent to the Svalbard Seed Vault but Harold was unsure as to how many were rice accessions. This seed storage is operated by the GCDT.

More than 500 new accessions are being released from quarantine. This includes most all the accessions from Bangladesh, the Indonesian accessions which produced seed, and many of the accessions from the Brazilian rice core collection. Harold also discussed the need to prioritize the grow-outs of the low inventory seed and about 1,000-1,500 accessions which were more than 10 years old thus just needed to be grown out.

Clarissa Maroon-Lango (APHIS, PPQ) reported seeds from the remaining 121 Bangladeshi rice accessions were processed and released from quarantine, concluding the introduction of the accessions from Bangladesh. Of the 199 rice accessions from the Brazilian rice core collection that were processed by the PGQP, there were 15 with mixed (red and white pericarp) seed, 8 with red pericarp and the remainder had a white pericarp. For 2012, the remaining 82 Brazilian rice accessions were processed and the remaining 125 slots were assigned to Targeted Growth Inc. of Seattle, Washington. Clarissa’s group will be working with Dave Ellis in Fort Collins, CO to determine if embryo rescue can be used to attempt to grow the Indonesian introductions which previously failed to germinate on media. A laboratory test for Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae utilizing DNA markers is being tested, if successful, this will be included in the PGQP roster of tests for rice pathogens.

Clarissa also mentioned the following items regarding actions taken by APHIS. The rice panicle mite was reclassified from an actionable to a non-actionable/non-quarantine pest. APHIS added the new regulatory category “not authorized pending pest risk analysis” (NAPPRA) for plants propagated as nursery stock. The Federal Register is allowing comment on the taxa that are not allowed into the USA until a risk assessment is completed.

WenGui Yan reported on the possible germplasm exchange with China being coordinated through Peter Bretting’s office. This is being done between the Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science and the USDA/ARS Plant Germplasm System as part of the USDA-China Ministry of Science and Technology-CAAS agreements and will include several different crops, one of which is rice. For rice, the proposed idea is to evaluate a total of 500 accessions with 250 accessions being from the USA and the other half from China in both countries and have the BGI (Beijing Genomics Institute) re-sequence the lines using GBS for conducting a GWAS (genome-wide association study) analysis.

Georgia Eizenga reported that the “Rice Diversity Panel 1” consisting of 413 diverse rice accessions which were genotyped with 700,000 SNP markers and phenotyped for 34 traits with support from an NSF grant was expanded to a total of approximately 2,000 accessions by IRRI (International Rice Research Institute). This expanded, “Rice Diversity Panel 2” of approximately 1,440 accessions was genotyped with the same 700,000 SNP markers and efforts are underway to import this panel into the USA from IRRI.

Georgia Eizenga reported that she plans to update the crop vulnerability report. As part of the update, Lorie Bernhardt is updating the list of U.S. rice varieties. When complete this list will be posted on the DBNRRC Sharepoint web site along with the URRN (Uniform Rice Regional Nursery) data. This web site is password protected so contact Lori if you need a password.

Members whose terms expired in 2012 were James Correll, Georgia Eizenga, James Gibbons, and Qimining Shao. James Correll, Georgia Eizenga, and Qimining Shao were nominated for another six year term and Rodante Tabien was nominated for the fourth committee position. The motion was made to accept all the proposed nominations by Karen Moldenhauer, seconded by Dwight Kanter, and supported by all members.

Georgia Eizenga has served the maximum two terms as committee chair, thus Farmin Jodari was nominated as committee chair. Karen Moldenhauer made a motion to accept the nomination of Farmin as chair, Xueyan Sha seconded the motion, and the motion was supported by all members.

The 33rd Rice CGC meeting will be held in conjunction with the Southern Rice Breeder’s meeting scheduled for Feb. 5, 2013 in Crowley, Louisiana.

Karen Moldenhauer made the motion to adjourn, Xueyan Sha seconded the motion, and the motion was supported by all members.

Appendix I. CGC members as of Feb 27, 2012 with year term ends in parentheses.

|Dr. Farmin Jodari, Chair (2014) |Dr. James Correll (2018) |

|Calif. Coop. Rice Res. Foundation |Plant Pathology Dept. |

|P.O. Box 306 |University of Arkansas |

|Biggs, CA 95917-0306 |Fayetteville, AR 72701 |

|fjodari@ |jcorrell@uark.edu |

|Dr. Georgia Eizenga, (2018) |Dr. Dwight Kanter (2016) |

|USDA-ARS |MAFES |

|Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center |Delta Branch Experiment Station |

|2890 Hwy 130 E |P.O. Box 197 |

|Stuttgart, AR 72160 |Stoneville, MS 38776 |

|Georgia.Eizenga@ars. |dgkanter@drec.msstate.edu |

|Dr. Karen Moldenhauer (2016) |Dr. Jim Oard (2016) |

|Rice Research and Extension Center |Louisiana State University |

|University of Arkansas |M.B. Sturgis Hall |

|2900 Hwy 130 E |Department of Agronomy |

|Stuttgart, AR 72160 |Baton Rouge, LA 70803 |

|kmolden@uark.edu |Joard@agcenter.lsu.edu |

|Dr. Xueyan Sha (2014) |Dr. Qiming Shao (2018) |

|Rice Research Station |Bayer Crop Science |

|LSU Ag Center |676 County Rd 324 |

|1373 Caffey Road |El Campo, TX 77437 |

|Rayne, LA 70578 |qiming.shao@ |

|XSha@agcenter.lsu.edu | |

|Dr. Rodante Tabien (2018) |Dr. M.O. Way (2016) |

|Texas Ag Exp. Station |Texas Ag Exp. Station |

|1509 Aggie Drive |1509 Aggie Drive |

|Beaumont, TX 77713 |Beaumont, TX 77713 |

|RETabien@ag.tamu.edu |moway@aesrg.tamu.edu |

|Dr. Harold Bockelman, Ex-officio |Mr. Mark A. Bohning, Ex-officio |

|USDA-ARS |CGC Facilitator |

|National Small Grains Collection |USDA-ARS National Germplasm Resources Room 400 |

|1691 S 2700 W |10300 Baltimore Ave. |

|Aberdeen, ID 83210 |Bldg. 003, BARC-West |

|Harold.Bockelman@ars. |Beltsville, MD 20705-2350 |

| |Mark.Bohning@ars. |

|Dr. Clarissa J. Maroon-Lango, Ex-officio |Dr. Anna M. McClung, Ex-officio |

|Lead Plant Pathologist |USDA-ARS |

|USDA, APHIS, PPQ, PHP, PSPI |Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center |

|Plant Germplasm Quarantine Program (PGQP) |2890 Hwy 130 E |

|Bldg. 580, BARC-East, Powder Mill Road |Stuttgart, AR 72160 |

|Beltsville, MD 20705 |Anna.Mcclung@ars. |

|Clarissa.J.Maroon-Lango@aphis. | |

|Dr. Jack Okamuro, Ex-officio |Dr. Wengui Yan, Ex-officio |

|USDA-ARS, NPS |USDA-ARS |

|Nat. Prog. Leader, Gen’l Biological Sci., Plant Physiology & Cotton |Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center |

|5601 Sunnyside Avenue |2890 Hwy 130 E |

|Beltsville, MD 20705-5139 |Stuttgart, AR 72160 |

|Jack.Okamura@ars. |Wengui.Yan@ars. |

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