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Jim ParksASTA - Chicago, December 5, 2012

Is US GEM Necessary?

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Initial Vision for GEM

1. Increase diversity of U.S. germplasm used by growers, end-users and consumers

2. Develop process to enhance exotic germplasm for U.S. Corn Belt use

3. Provide process for improving access to improved, diverse germplasm to all stakeholders

4. Add to support of public corn research

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Additional Value Today

1. Increased level of collaboration among and within public and private sectors for corn improvement

21 Public Cooperators

1 Non-governmental Organization

26 Private Cooperators

11 International Private Cooperators

5 International Public cooperators

All collaborating together to push forward a long-term project that

no single organization or company could do alone above its

immediate market needs A model for public-private collaboration

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Additional Value Today

1. Increased level of collaboration …

2. Wider source of germplasm than initial LAMP materials with more international cooperators

Grown from initially 51 LAMP accessions and 7 tropical hybrids to a

wide range of exotic germplasm provided by numerous international

public and private cooperators

Proprietary germplasm from more than 40 private developers has

been used in crosses with the above materials to create

approximately 600 breeding crosses that are now part of the GEM

Project

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Additional Value Today1. Increased level of collaboration …

2. Wider source of germplasm …

3. Increased opportunities to train plant breeders and those in related plant science areas

As of March 2012, graduate students in plant breeding and related

fields at six universities have either completed or were conducting

32 M.S. and 45 Ph.D. thesis projects in GEM-related/sponsored

research.

Undergraduate students at Truman State are doing germplasm

research projects on value-added traits.

GEM is clearly providing a foundation for future plant scientists

in this critical field.

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Additional Value Today

1. Increased level of collaboration …

2. Wider source of germplasm …

3. Increased opportunities to train …

4. Flattened the world for access to germplasm, technology, and information

258 GEM releases are now available to Cooperators that they in

turn can use to add diversity to their breeding programs

Information on breeding methodology, pathology, entomology, grain

quality, and allelic diversity are being made available to all

cooperators and the public on a scale that would otherwise not be

available or possible with the efforts of any single organization

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Effective and sustained increase of the genetic diversity of the US corn

germplasm base is a long, continuous, and costly path. We will

only achieve this goal by working together.

US GEM is very necessary.