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About the Crop Germplasm Committees
Crop Germplasm Committee (CGC) is the generic name for a specific
national working group of specialists providing analysis, data
and recommendations on genetic resources within a specific crop or group
of related crops of present or future economic importance.
These committees represent their user community. Their membership
consists of representation from federal, state, and private sectors;
representation from various scientific disciplines; and geographical
representation for the crop(s).
Crop Germplasm Committees are concerned with critical issues facing
the NPGS including:
- Identifying gaps in U.S. collections and developing proposals
to fill these gaps through exchange and collaborative collecting
trips.
- Assisting crop curators in identifying duplication in the
collections.
- Prioritizing traits for evaluation and developing proposals
to implement the evaluations.
- Assisting crop curators and GRIN personnel in correcting passport
data and ensuring that standardized, accurate and useful information
is entered into the GRIN database.
- Assisting in germplasm regeneration projects.
- Identifying closed out programs and other germplasm collections
in danger of being lost and developing plans to rescue the important
material in these programs.
- Working with quarantine officials to identify and ensure new
techniques for pathogen identification
which will assist in the expeditious release of plant germplasm.
- Maintaining current reports on the status of their crops for
the Congress, ARS National Program Staff and Administrators, State
administrators and other key individuals involved with the NPGS.
- Evaluating the potential benefits and problems associated with the
development and use of core subsets.
Forty-Two Crop Germplasm Committees provide support to the National
Plant Germplasm System (NPGS).
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