Download 22 nd March 2012 Tony Kent

ACRCP Strategic Plan Update
ACRCP Consultative Committee Meeting
22nd March 2012
Tony Kent
[email protected]
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Rationale & process
• Assuming familiarity with Sept 2011 update (ACRCP-CC website)
• Why the need for a strategic plan?
– Response to 2010-11 review recommendations
– Need for sustained improvements to the delivery vehicle for science
program outputs
– Need for response to Agri RDE policy changes
– GRDC funding schedule
• Process
– Strategic Planning Group & members
– Draft strategy document
– Meetings
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Some areas to be addressed
• Review and revision of the Charter of Participation, particularly to clarify
of roles and accountabilities of the PISC agencies, the ACRCP-CC and
CIMMYT,
• ACRCP management structure and its capacity to provide strategic
overview and governance for the science and services (FFS) streams,
• Clarify the funding model, structure and management of the Fee For
Service operation
• A clearer and expanded ACRCP-CC role in some important areas,
• Gaps in the fundamental and applied R&D program relating to fungicide
use and their interaction with the APR genes, and the design of agronomic
management packages, and
• Need to be attentive to any change in fungicide insensitivity situation of
the rust species in Australia
• Address the relationship with national plant disease policy and science
architecture.
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ACRCP Goals 2012-2022
1. To provide cereal breeders with;
(i)
Diverse sources of genetic resistance, emphasising discovery of new sources of APR ,
and the breeding tools required for them to readily deploy these genes in new
varieties, and
(ii) Commercial screening services to allow reliable selection for resistance to the major
cereal rusts.
2. To provide the Australian grains industry and biosecurity agencies with;
(i) A coordinated national rust monitoring service, threat surveillance and forecasting
capacity, giving timely advice on the occurrence, potential epidemic severity and likely
costs of endemic and exotic rust threats and for early detection of exotic rust incursions,
(ii) Timely consensus ratings and rust resistance genotypes of current commercial varieties
to rust pathotypes and the implications of any changes for resistance breakdown, based
on a system of regional and disease progress nurseries, disseminated through ACRCP &
external communications networks; and
(iii) An early warning system for detecting the emergence of cereal pathotype insensitivity
to fungicides, using a structured monitoring approach.
3. To ensure continuity of cereal rust management knowledge and the scientific skillbase, through;
(i)
targeted dissemination of information and education of the industry and the public,
and
(ii) mentoring and training of the next generation of cereal pathologists and breeders.
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Science Goals
• Target species
– Wheat primary focus
– Barley increased investment esp. LR, YR & BGYR
mutation
– Oats (almost certainly) proportional to crop value
– Triticale (& Long Season Wheat), disproportionate to
crop value b/c of risk
– Durum
• Increased opportunistic investigation of rust APR
genes with non-rust targets e.g. mildews of
wheat and barley.
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Science Program
Wheat:
By 2017, three minor genes/Adult Plant Resistance (APR) genes for each wheat rust, with markers
suited to high throughput MATS, will be available to breeders. Over the succeeding 5 years,
the ACRCP will continue to build this suite of genes and markers.
Other cereals:
By 2017, at least two minor genes for resistance to each of these rusts will be characterised and
diverse adapted germplasm containing these genes be available to breeders.
The genetic basis of resistance to the exotic stripe rust pathogen in Australian barley germplasm
will be established.
Over the succeeding 5 years, markers for these genes, suitable for high throughput MATS, will be
developed and work will continue to identify additional minor genes and markers.
Specific 10 year science goals will centre around:
1)
Resistance gene discovery and characterization
2)
Rust pathogen variability and diagnostics
3)
Fungicides
4)
Transgenic & native resistance approaches
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Maximising application of science outputs
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Organisational structure & management
– ACRCP activity streams separated, strategic oversight.
– At high level 2 streams are the Science program & the Service business
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Principle vehicle for ensuring application of science outputs on farms is via the services to
breeders . Two elements
– Fee for service business (screening & backcrossing ++)
– Small industry & public good services
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Ensure ACRCP science program outputs are deployed in commercial varieties to minimize rust
risk & grower losses in-season & longer term
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Genes backcrossed
Markers etc used to accelerate deployment, or
Collaboration strategy to “multiply” impact of research
– Current ACRCP Charter Participants already collaborate
– Must be open to new collaborative arrangements with:
• regional pathologists network
• Domestic & OS organisations
• global agbio businesses
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Questions still to be resolved
1. Balance of the effort on APR/minor genes vs.
major genes
2. Management structure of ACRCP esp.
strategic oversight
3. Status of the Fee-for-Service business in 2017
4. Fungicide X genotype & agronomic packages
5. Role(s) for the state agencies
6. A global budget?
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Balance of emphasis on APR & major
gene resistances
• The 2010-11 review recommended greater emphasis on
APR, which the SPG agreed with, but the balance of this
emphasis and the resources to be directed toward
developing APR genes vs. work on major resistance genes is
yet to be confirmed.
• We need reasonable confidence that if effort is redirected
to APR, the products of R&D will be deployed.
• Are Australian wheat breeders deploying the major
resistance genes & perfect markers developed in the
preceding phase of ACRCP? If not, why not and does the
strategy for the next phase of ACRCP address this gap?
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Management structure
• 2010-11 review recommended some changes to the management
& organisational arrangements for the next phase of ACRCP which
were intended to clarify responsibilities, improve high level
strategic planning, governance and reporting.
• Some areas of organisational arrangements, reporting and
governance and representation on strategic oversight group to be
finalised.
• Question of the need (or not) for an identified lead agency
• The detailed arrangements have yet to be finalised but the ACRCP
Consultative C’tee will have a formal role in these.
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Breeder & industry service business
• Strategy outlines business principles
• My view on the future:
– Starts with Business Manager
– Review & feasibility different business models
– USYD purchaser-provider model will reveal
transactions and true costs.
– Move to an entity based at Cobbitty, initially
controlled by USYD with Advisory Board.
– Transition to fully separated self-funding NFP by
2017.
[email protected]
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Proposed Structure ACRCP Phase II
GRDC National Rust Strategy
ACRCP Charter of Participation
(Expanded to include PISC agencies)
Consultative Committee
Communicate on
service needs &
operational issues
Breeders’
Advisory
Group
Communicate on
scientific
developments &
policy issues
Strategic Advisory Group
Independent Chair
Director (science leadership)
Business Manager, Services
Breeders' Advisory Group Representative
(market expectations of science & services)
 Consultative C'tee Pathologist (applied R&D &
regional knowledge, links to PISC policy)
GRDC (R&D investment strategy)
ACRCP DIRECTOR
Services & program
management support
Science
Business Manager
Commercial Services
Fee-For-Service Company
Incorporated entity based at
Cobbitty, controlled by USYD
but at arms length
Transition to separate selffunding NFP in 2017.
Strategic Planning Group forms
Advisory Board.
Science Leadership Group
Communication services
Training administration
Research services &
support?
?
Regional project
coordination?
?
Regional, national & global R&D and
non-commercial service programs with
Charter Participants
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Proposed Structure & Accountabilities for Phase II
Science Program: Services and Program Management:
ACRCP Charter of Participation
Consultative Committee
ACRCP DIRECTOR
Strategic Advisory Group
Breeders
Advisory
Group
Science Leadership Group
Director (Chair)
Uni of Sydney, CSIRO, CIMMYT, Uni
of Adelaide, Chair ACRCP-CC
Pre-Breeders
Alliance
Research Programs
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Services and Program Management:
Proposed Structure & accountabilities for Phase II
ACRCP Charter of Participation
Consultative Committee
ACRCP DIRECTOR
Breeders
Advisory
Group
Business Manager
Services
Communication Services
Science Training
Administration?
Strategic Advisory Group
FFS entity: Transition
to separate selffunding NFP in 2017
Research Services &
support?
Regional Coordination and
Support?
Regional Services –
PISC Agencies?
Training and extension
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R&D to investigate fungicide-gene interaction
and develop agronomic management packages.
• Risk of over-dependence on fungicide & demand for APR in
easily managed diseases e.g. Yr. The issue is dealt with in
detail in the risk analysis.
• Decision to proceed with an investment decision already
made to flow on from current USDY-PBI project.
• My view: this work must be part of ACRCP but yet to be
confirmed by planning group.
• ACRCP-CC feedback?
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Strategic opportunities with state
(PISC) agencies?
• Opportunities exist for strategic partnerships
addressing key regional cereal rust issues, combining
capabilities of core participants and those of regional
agencies.
• Business case for stronger agency linkages with ACRCP
will be based on the need for focused work addressing
specific regional issues, which can be enhanced with
well-defined ACRCP-agency collaborations.
• Feedback from ACRCP-CC members?
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National investment in cereal rust
control R, D & E (I)
• We have not recommended a global budget for annual
national investment in cereal rust control R&D, support
to application of ACRCP science outputs and extension.
• Charter participants investing >$5mio (+ access to
CIMMYT non-GRDC projects $2mio), state agencies
(PISC etc) investing in CR…say $2.5mio+
• ACRCP-CC feedback
– Should we set a target for a global budget?
– If so, how much?
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[email protected]
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Present Structure of ACRCP
GRDC National Rust Strategy
ACRCP Charter of Participation
ACRCP Consultative Committee
ACRCP Director
ACRCP Steering Committee
(Charter Participants)
CSIRO
CIMMYT
University of
Adelaide
University of
Sydney
GRDC Research
Agreement
GRDC Research
Agreement
GRDC Research
Agreement
GRDC Research and Commercial
Operations Agreements
Project
Specifications
Project
Specifications
Project
Specifications
Project Specifications
Research and Noncommercial
services
Commercial
Services Offer
(contracts)
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