Letter Report to the Florida Department of Citrus on the Review of Research Proposals on Citrus Greening, December, 2008 (2008) / Chapter Skim
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In 2007, the Florida Citrus Industry Research Coordinating Council identified the disease as its number one priority problem and proposed an assessment on each box of citrus sold to be dedicated for research on ways to control the suspected causal agent -- the bacterium, "Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus" and its vector, the Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri. With revenues accrued from this assessment, the Florida Citrus Production Research Advisory Council (FCPRAC)
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reflected the diversity of approaches encompassed within and among the 205 proposals to address the problem of HLB and other citrus diseases. Therefore, each review panel included a mixture of scientific expertise most appropriate for reviewing proposals grouped according to general research approach, as follows: Epidemiology, Production Economics, Alternative Production Systems (19 proposals)
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REVIEW PROCESS As the proposals were received and grouped according to panel, each proposal was assigned three principal reviewers from a given panel based on the disciplinary expertise of the panelists. These individuals were given the responsibility for providing individual written review comments and scores, leading the discussion of the proposal in the panel meeting, and preparing the panel summary evaluations following the panel discussion.
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The summary statements and comments from the principal reviewers were provided to the parent Committee along with a memorandum from the chair of the panel describing the panel's proposed rank ordering, suggestions for improving the RFP, and comments on issues related to the review process. (The summary statements are appended to this letter report as a non-public Appendix C)
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In addition, during the panel reviews it was clear that a handful of proposals did not involve research but might be an important part of the infrastructure to support research and other activities related to sustaining the citrus industry; these included diagnostic services and the like. These also could not be judged using the same criteria as the research proposals, so they were separated from the others for separate discussion and commentary.
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Although the commitment to fund one year at a time is apparently imposed by legal structure of the box tax, the Committee is concerned that this uncertainty could ultimately interfere with the willingness and ability of the individual investigators to hire staff and purchase equipment. For the current round of awards, the Committee suggests that the research sponsors ask potential grantees to submit revised budgets and more detailed budget justifications, perhaps along the lines of the format suggested in the subsequent section of this letter.
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The committee suggests that the applicants be given explicit instructions about what to include in a budget justification in the future. The applicant should be requested to provide, in addition to the budget justification narrative for each year, a table with columns corresponding to project objectives and rows corresponding to project cost components.
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The NRC staff, particularly Robin Schoen and Camilla Ables and their assistants, allowed us to have an organized, efficient and effective review process.
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Gross, Texas A&M University Rosemary Loria, Cornell University Sally A Miller, Ohio State University Forrest W
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