useful. Some of this information should probably be integrated into vulnerability statements that are being revamped. Status of Small Fruit Breeding Programs: New Overall trend is to replace breeders with genomicists. Steve Knapp – UC Davis strawberry program, PatrickEdger Michigan State University, – polyploid genomics but will probably pick up some breeding from Jim Hancock. Hamid Ashrafi North Carolina State University blueberry breeding/genomics. – Massimo Iorizzo North Carolina State University, genomics will be working in – berry crops some. Maggie Schaber left NCSU and will be replaced, Terry Bland is handling things at Castle Hayne for now. University of Arkansas will be advertising for new breeder to overlap with John Clark as he approaches retirement. Kim Hummer has been working on drafts of vulnerability statements. Strawberry is online, will be split into raspberries and blackberries. Drafts will go on Rubus to web. Michael will work on putting together raspberry vulnerability statement for publication using the draft that Kim has started. Current draft will go on web in the meantime. should be sent out soon. Suggestion is to split out Vaccinium cranberries and lingonberries from blueberries. Vulnerability statements should be reviewed and updated frequently. Office of National Programs Report Gail and gave update from ONP in a nutshell, demand is increasing and – budgets are decreasing or at best are flat and effectively decreasing from inflation. New budget currently working through Congress would add 3.5 million, but far from being final so hard to say what will happen until something is actually passed. Lots of emphasis and resources going toward developing data management systems as handling, making sense of, and storing/archiving huge amounts of data has been identified as one of the major challenges in the near future. NGRL Report Gary Kinard Updating GRIN taxonomy GRIN global still in the works, undergoing security audit before it can go live. Dimitre Mollov small fruit pathology projects, currently working on Next Gen – sequencing for viruses in symptomatic tissue from MD growers and Kim Lewer’s plots, working primarily in Rubus and Ribes NCGR Report Flat budget
useful. Some of this information should probably be integrated into vulnerability statements that are being revamped. Status of Small Fruit Breeding Programs: New Overall trend is to replace breeders with genomicists. Steve Knapp – UC Davis strawberry program, PatrickEdger – Michigan State University, polyploid genomics but will probably pick up some breeding from Jim Hancock. Hamid Ashrafi – North Carolina State University blueberry breeding/genomics. Massimo Iorizzo – North Carolina State University, genomics will be working in berry crops some. Maggie Schaber left NCSU and will be replaced, Terry Bland is handling things at Castle Hayne for now. University of Arkansas will be advertising for new breeder to overlap with John Clark as he approaches retirement. Kim Hummer has been working on drafts of vulnerability statements. Strawberry is online, Rubus will be split into raspberries and blackberries. Drafts will go on to web. Michael will work on putting together raspberry vulnerability statement for publication using the draft that Kim has started. Current draft will go on web in the meantime. Vaccinium should be sent out soon. Suggestion is to split out cranberries and lingonberries from blueberries. Vulnerability statements should be reviewed and updated frequently. Office of National Programs Report Gail and gave update from ONP – in a nutshell, demand is increasing and budgets are decreasing or at best are flat and effectively decreasing from inflation. New budget currently working through Congress would add 3.5 million, but far from being final so hard to say what will happen until something is actually passed. Lots of emphasis and resources going toward developing data management systems as handling, making sense of, and storing/archiving huge amounts of data has been identified as one of the major challenges in the near future. NGRL Report Gary Kinard Updating GRIN taxonomy GRIN global still in the works, undergoing security audit before it can go live. Dimitre Mollov – small fruit pathology projects, currently working on Next Gen sequencing for viruses in symptomatic tissue from MD growers and Kim Lewer’s plots, working primarily in Rubus and Ribes NCGR Report Flat budget
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