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The Group agreed on a mechanism whereby
responsibility would be accepted for the maintenance of the Most Original Samples (MOSs)
identified in the Forages collections. The completion of this exercise would allow
all the collections holders to focus their priorities on the MOSs for characterization,
evaluation and multiplication for distribution.
The proposed mechanism is the following:
Thanks to data analysis with the algorithm described in
Appendix I, all
accessions will be provisionally marked as either MOS or “one step away
from MOS”, “two steps away from MOS”, "with MOS”, or
“unknown”. The Database
managers of the Central Crop Databases will provide to all the Forages
collection curators the information on their accessions including the
provisional status, by the end of April 2000. Curators will be asked to check the validity of these
categories and to provide comments and corrections by the end of November
2000.
Whenever the provisional MOS status is accepted, curators will also be asked
to provisionally accept the accompanying responsibility for the maintenance
of those accessions.
 Specific responsibilities
Responsibility
of the maintainer of a MOS:
ensure that the accession is maintained under long-term conservation condition in
compliance with the international standards and that seed
increase guidelines standards agreed within the Forages Group (see report of
the sixth meeting, p. 162) are followed;
ensure that an appropriate safety-duplicate is deposited in a genebank, preferably
within another ECPGR member country;
facilitate access to the accessions to bona fide users;
in case of impossibility to honor the commitment for long-term conservation
and regeneration, inform the database manager.
Responsibility of the Central Crop database
manager:
facilitate the repatriation of
material by distributing relevant information about accessions conserved in
countries other than the country of origin;
update the database when
informed of changes by the national information systems and make the
database available to the collection holders, both as a searchable and
downloadable database on the Internet, and as a diskette upon request;
forward to MOS maintainers any
request of seeds;
provide the collection holders
and the Working Group on Forages with information about the degree of
safety-duplication of the collection.
Responsibility
of the genebank hosting safety-duplicate:
maintain the safety-duplicated
germplasm in long-term storage in compliance with international standards
and under a ‘black-box‘ arrangement (i.e., not distribute the germplasm
and the related information; immediately notify the MOS maintainer in case
of any problem with the safety-duplicate; not carry out viability tests; not
regenerate the safety-duplicated germplasm).
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