1. NCPNR Funding Review David Byrne, Texas A&M University
Deborah Golino, FPS, University of California

2. Funding for NCPN Roses Texas A&M University ($230,953)
Administrative
Coordinator salaries
Run meeting
Texas Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab
Economic study
National Germplasm Resources Lab ($102,938)
Establish virus collection in collaboration with FPS and TPDDL
Foundational Plant Services ($86,000)
Maintain G-1 collection
Process new entries into G-1 collection
Quarantine

3. Texas A&M University Funding 2018-2019
Administrative Support
Texas Plant Disease Diagnostic Laboratory
Economic Assessment of Clean Plant Program

4. Administrative Support
Item
Funded
Comments
85% Coordinator
$43,444
Salary for Coordinators
Annual meeting
Travel funds
$22,500
Travel for Advisory board and invited experts etc.
Printing etc.
$ 534
Facility rental and catering
$5,000
Total
$71,478

5. Texas Plant Disease Diagnostic Laboratory
Item
Funded
Comments
Extension Assoc/Asst.
$54,504
Real time PCR
$39,000
Upgrade laboratory equipment
Lab supplies
$15,000
Genomic extraction kits, ELISA, PCR, qPCR, RPA reagents
Greenhouse upgrade/supplies
$1,263
Supplies
Travel
$4,000
Coordinate diagnostic and virus collection work
Total
$113,767
Harmonization – detection and therapeutics
Virus collection (FPS/USDA)
Augment FPS collection with TAMU/Moore cultivars
Florida Old Garden Rose collection
Antique Rose Emporium

6. some observations on growth of infected and clean rose plants
Economic Assessment
Item
Funded
Comments
Pemberton
Labor
$8,500
Data collection and organization
Travel
$3,000
Grower interviews
Greenhouse supplies
$1,500
Grow infected and clean plants
Palma
Student labor/tuition
$19,158
Collate and analyze data
IMPLAN software
$5,000
License for use
Total
$37,158
Brent Pemberton – collect information via production data and interviews,
some observations on growth of infected and clean rose plants
Marco Palma – assess economic impact of infected materials

7. Ideas for Additional Requests for 2018-2019
Possibility of establishing a back up collection – Golino
Need to develop several proposals as do not know future funding available
Levels: $250K, $500K, $750K scalable to $1,000,000
Topics: Back up collection, economics, quality