| Exchange of material for completing existing collections 8. In order to implement plans for the exchange of material to complete the existing collections and the dupilcation of base material, the Committee recognized that a limited number of centres should be asked to accept responsibility for holding the major collections of wheat germplasm. The Committee unanimously recommended that the Board should request the following centres to undertake such responsibilities : (1) the N.I. Vavilov All-Union Institute of Plant Industry, USSR (2) the USDA Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville and Fort Collins (3) the Germplasm Laboratory of the C.N.R., Bari. Italy (4) the Kyoto University Plant Germ-plasm Institute, Japan. Of these, the Kyoto centre will assume major responsibility for the wild species collections. 9. It was further recognized that : (a) where the institution named above has regional responsibilities, any sub-collections will be the responsibility of the major collection, and (b) there are many other institutions holding wheat germplasm which are or will be active in the world network of genetic resources centres, and these may be asked to accomodate duplications once these are identified. 10. The recognition of the four centres in para 8 has been based on the possession of competent and trained personnel, the active evaluation of material and space which can be made available for international storage. 11. The four centres will be asked to guarantee the availability of material and information. Each major centre will be asked to advise the Board on the feasibility of maintaining the samples at -10C. In addition the centres in USSR, USA and Italy would be expected to accept initially up to 30,000 samples and to accomodate between 3,000 and 4,000 additional samples over the next 10 years. The centre in Japan would be asked to accomodate up to 3,000 additional samples. 12. The Board should state to each designated centre whether or not it is willing to provide any financial assistance and the Board should note that inherent in the centre accepting this role there will be limited additional manpower requirements. 13. The Committee agreed that technical discussions will be necessary and probably at its next meeting (when the computerised information will be available) on : (a) the duplications within collections ; and (b) the details of the duplications of base collections. Other technical matters relating to methodology will be included in the discussions. |
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