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Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 12:56
PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Availability of
grafting wood fromgovernmentrepositories
Hello Sarah,
I would suggest you hook up with a plant breeder
and participate in a participatory plant breeding project. In this case
the plant breeder would send material to several growers who would contribute
time and land to the project. I'm not sure who all is working on cherry
plums but I suspect Bob Bors may be and Brian Smith in Northern Wisconsin is
working on all kinds of hardy prunus. I would think also that NAFEX as
an organization could ask for material - for exemple if 3 or 4 nafex
members were interested in testing cherry plums under different
conditions using the same protocoles and data taking
methods.
All the best,
Kristine, NE Québec, foot or so of wet snow on
the ground -exceptionally mild winter,
spring coming on way too fast
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 6:35
PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Availability of
grafting wood from governmentrepositories
Hi David,
I just heard about the change in policy from
an email forwarded by a friend told she wasn't getting anything this
year! I'm completely annoyed. I agree that we should support the
nurseries out there and I have/do, but most of the stuff in Canada's clonal
genebank isn't available anywhere else. For instance, I bought a ton
of rootstock last year so I could graft their entire cherry plum
collection. I have an entire box full of printed catalogues and a long
list of bookmarked nurseries, but I already have every cherry plum
commercially available. On the other hand, CCG has the entire greek
alphabet series and now they won't let me have them! Seriously,
how many people in Canada want cherry plum material? And I'm using
Cherry plums just as an example: I loaded up on pear rootstock too planning
to graft some varieties this spring, thankfully I grafted about 75 kinds
apples last year.
Could you please send me the address (email or
otherwise) where you protested? I would like to add a letter of complaint
too.
Do you have any information on what I would have to do to
be recognized as a "bona fide researcher or breeder" to get this
exemption? I like to tell people (a bit tongue in cheek) that I
own/operate a 'husband funded private research station' and plan to get into
breeding red fleshed desert apples, but I need the start-up materials to do
that! If I could get an exemption, I'd be happy to request materials
for others!!!
Sarah zone 3 Edmonton, AB
I have
recently encountered an issue with the provision of grafting wood from the
Canadian Germplasm Repository. They have determined that I am neither a
"bona fide researcher nor a breeder", and hence am not entitled to
obtain grafting wood from the Repository (the equivalent of the National
Plant Germplasm System in the States). Obviously this determination
applies to virtually all the Canadian NAFEX members, (other than the staff
of the dwindling number of govt research stations and multinational
agribusiness employees.) I have registered my objection to this
interpretation, which represents a substantial change from the practice
to date. But to bolster my argument I need information from other
jurisdictions. Am I correct in my belief that ordinary citizens of the
US can request material from the various repositories maintained by the
NPGS? And that my cousins in the UK can get wood from Brogdale or Long
Ashton? And so on for Holland, France, India, etc.? Note that the issue
here has nothing to do with disease transmission, quarantine, prohibition of
importation of specfic material into specific states, etc. Rather it
hinges specifically on the perceived mandate of the Repository, which is
restricted to "bona fide researchers". And amateur growers are not, in
their eyes. (I note that the NPGS also state that "Germplasm is
available in small quantities for research purposes" ; obviously if my
belief that people outside academic centres and government labs can
nevertheless access materials in the States is correct, the crux of the
issue hinges on the definition of a "researcher". (I think NAFEX
members, and all the train of amateur fruit growers who preceded us have
done far more legitimate real world research than all the white coated
lab types.)
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