3rd Annual Plant Breeding Workshop

National Association of Plant Breeders

An Initiative of the Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee (SCC-080)

3rd Annual Meeting, August 3-5, 2009

What: The annual meeting of the National Association of Plant Breeders, an initiative of the Plant Breeding coordinating committee
Who: All those interested in plant breeding are invited to attend; there are no annual dues; attendees will include public and private sector scientists and graduate students
Where: Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Madison, Wisconsin
When: August 3-5, 2009
Host: Bill Tracy, University of Wisconsin
Objective: The plant breeding coordinating committee serves as a forum regarding issues and opportunities of national and global importance to the public and private sectors of the U.S. national plant breeding effort. The workshop will include invited speakers, discussion sessions, and focus groups.
Organized by: the Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee (SCC-080)

Registration Fee: $235

Information and on-line registration: http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/gpb/meetings/pbccmeeting2009.html

Background:              The PBCC is a national coordinating committee of U.S. plant breeders (SCC-080) established in 2007 at a workshop co-organized by USDA-CSREES and the Departments of Crop Science and Horticultural Science at North Carolina State University. The committee works to raise awareness of what plant breeders have done for the nation and how they can contribute to the future of the United States. The group seeks to strengthen U.S. plant breeding capacity by encouraging improvements in infrastructure and education. The PBCC was established as a Land-Grant University Multistate Research Coordinating Committee.

            According to guidelines of USDA-CSREES (United States Department of Agriculture - Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service) and ESCOP (Experiment Station Committee on Organization and Policy), a Coordinating Committee (CC) provides opportunities for scientists, specialists and others to work cooperatively and coordinate activities to solve problems that concern more than one state. The Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee (PBCC) is administered by the Southern Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors (SAAESD) and has been assigned the number “SCC-080″. However, participants in SCC-080 can be from any state. Experiment Station directors of each state are encouraged to name an official representative to the SCC-080. Anyone from either the public or private sector interested in the future of plant breeding is encouraged to participate in the PBCC (SCC-080). The PBCC is organized into an executive committee and seven subcommittees.