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2 Developing Priorities for Research
2 Developing Priorities for Research
Pages 45-54
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, the American Vineyard Foundation, the California Competitive Grant Program for Research in Viticulture and Enology, the California Citrus Nursery Advisory Board, the Almond Board of California, and the California Department of Transportation (Gleeson et al., 2004)
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Given the short period of intense study, however, and the complexity of the challenges presented by PD, the insect vectors, the host plants, and the California agricultural landscape, those gaps are not unexpected. Although most of projects funded over the past 3 years are only now beginning to yield results, current federal and state fiscal challenges are likely to reduce the amount of funding available for agricultural research, outreach, and management programs.
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That board relies on its research-screening subcommittee to solicit and evaluate new projects and to evaluate the projects already under way. The PD/GWSS Board seeks reviews and evaluates projects that are overseen by the CDFA, and there is board representation that overlaps with other entities that distribute research funds, such as the University of California Pierce's Disease Research Grants Program and USDAAPHIS, or that are involved in PDGWSS research, such as USDAARS.
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, avoid redundancy in the selection of research projects, eliminate overlapping processes, reduce costs, and distinguish projects for which teams or consortia should be established from those grants appropriate for one or two principal investigators. Consolidation adds uniformity and balance in determining the scientific merit of proposals.
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Typically, membership in the oversight group rotates, using fixed term lengths to ensure stability and continuity and allow needed expertise and fresh perspectives to be incorporated. Oversight groups for NIH, NSF, and USDANRI always recruit additional external peer reviewers, generally national and international experts, to help review the proposals.
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Efforts to manage disease or pest outbreaks in agriculture often promote research that results in effective short-term solutions, but because diseases and pests are dynamic and evolving, those control measures often are not sustainable. With information on the first factors for any given project, the research can be classified into one of four categories: · Category 1: The research option holds reasonable promise of generating successful tools for the management of PDGWSS, either in the short term or in the long term.
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For example, the cultivation and maintenance of unique lineages of grapes that result in the production of distinctive varieties of wine, such as chardonnay or cabernet sauvignon, adds value to grape production, but it severely limits the opportunities for crop improvement strategies that focus on breeding for disease or insect resistance by the methods conventionally used in many other crops. Although the process of categorizing research options focused on the potential effectiveness, time, and cost of a particular approach, the report mentions those factors when applicable.
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. Economic analysis of management outcomes should focus on developing estimates of the economic consequences, including the implications for financial risk that are associated with management alternatives.
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Aside from current CDFA nursery regulatory, bulk grape, and bulk citrus programs, there could be an array of policy instruments and institutional structures that could reduce the probability of GWSS spread in California and avert the introduction and spread of other PD vector species. The relative cost of most policy alternatives is largely unknown, although efficiency studies are possible.
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In the remaining chapters of the report, the committee uses its framework to evaluate and categorize current and prospective research strategies for PDGWSS and, ultimately, as the basis of its research recommendations.
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