Be an HRDC member
Interested in becoming a member? HRDC offers five membership levels: platinum, gold, silver, green-platinum and green. You can find out more about the benefits of each membership level below or read through the Guidelines for Public-Private Sector Partnership. Send an email to irri-hrdcsecretariat@cgiar.org for more info or if you have specific questions.
Platinum Membership
USD45,000/annum
- Access to HRDC material
- Access to information, and expertise relevant to hybrid rice sector
- Receives around 40% more material (quantity of seeds and/or number of populations) than Gold member (A, B, and R lines, F2 population)
- Access to IRRI proprietary DNA markers relevant for hybrid rice breeding
- Access to IRRI-proprietary QTLs (individual or pyramided or paired) for biotic stress tolerance and other commercially important traits
- Access to parental material (A/B/R lines) with specific grain quality traits (cooking and eating; and/or milling)
- Access to 2 newly deployed genes or pyramids per year. These will have the following quality metrics:
- a. Introgressions will be in a fully elite, high-yielding background such as IRRI 154 that has good restoring properties.
- b. Recipient parent recovery rates of 95% or higher (typically >98%) to eliminate undesirable donor genome.
- c. Introgression sizes of 2cM or less (typically <500kb) to minimise linkage drag.
- d. Genes will be newly deployed into elite material, i.e. they will be absent or nearly absent from existing elite indica lines.
- e. Delivery will be 10g seed from the near-isogenic introgression line and 10g from the elite recipient parent, along with relevant genotypic information and marker information for selecting the introgressed gene.
- Access to Grain Quality Evaluation services, including:
- a. Provide cooking quality profile of 25 lines (of their choice) comprising parental germplasm and hybrids (every year)
- b. Characterize the influence of amylose chain length visàvis amylopectin to predict texture of 25 lines (every year)
- c. Develop instrumentation based visco-elastic properties on 25 lines to predict cooking and eating quality (every year)
- d. Model factors influencing texture as well as cooking quality properties, matching to benchmark varieties preferred in South Asia and SouthEast Asia (every year)
- e. Improve the restorer and maintainer lines matching best textural preferences (year 2 and 3)
- f. Codevelop hybrids matching best texture and cooking and eating quality (year 4 and 5)
- Access to finished HRDC hybrids for multi-location testing at members’ target locations
- Free and early access to certain additional IRRI-proprietary non-HRDC material for breeding purposes, for the first 15 parental lines; in excess of the 15 parental lines it will be available for a fee (USD 1000/line per year – subject to changes for succeeding years)
- Lesser royalty fee at commercial phase
- Any for-profit organizations or companies that have commercial activities related to rice R&D and/or selling of seeds and other products and Services, including business entities under public organizations
- Commitment to report diligently in writing the results to HRDC
Gold Membership
USD20,000/annum
- Access to HRDC material
- Access to information, and expertise relevant to hybrid rice sector
- Receives the moderate amount of material (A, B, and R lines, F2 population)
- Access to IRRI proprietary DNA markers relevant for hybrid rice breeding
- Access to certain additional IRRI proprietary non-HRDC material for breeding purposes, at an additional cost (USD 1000 /line/year)
- Access to RETA for evaluating finished hybrids of HRDC
- Higher royalty fee at commercial phase
- Any for-profit organizations or companies that have commercial activities related to rice R&D and/or selling of seeds and other products and Services, including business entities under public organizations
- Commitment to report diligently in writing the results to HRDC
Silver Membership
USD10,000/annum
- Access to information and expertise relevant to hybrid rice sector
- Access to starter kit (15-20 parental lines each year) material from HRDC for first and second year of membership (Note: by default, the membership of Silver members active in breeding and/or marketing of rice seed varieties will be upgraded to Gold membership from the third year onwards; All the benefits and annual fee of gold membership eventually will be applied
- All the benefits of “HRDC Gold” from year 3 to 5 of the membership
- Access to RETA for evaluating finished hybrids of HRDC
- Higher royalty fee at commercial phase, after upgrade to Gold
- Participation in HRDC forum
- Possibility to showcase their product, service, and technologies to HRDC members by the way of presentations in HRDC forum
- No access to HRDC materials until upgrade to Gold
- Can nominate one (1) hybrid per year under MRYT
- Any for-profit organizations or companies that have commercial activities related to rice R&D and/or selling of seeds and other products and services, Including business entities under public organizations
- Commitment to report diligently in writing the results to HRDC
Green-Platinum Membership
Voluntary
- Access to HRDC material, information, and expertise relevant to hybrid rice sector
- Access to IRRI proprietary DNA markers relevant for hybrid rice breeding
- Free and early access to certain additional IRRI proprietary non-HRDC material for breeding purposes (up to the first 15 parental lines
- Any not-for-profit organizations or companies that have commercial activities related to rice R&D and/or selling of seeds and other products and Services, including business entities under public organizations.
- Commitment to report diligently in writing the results to HRDC.
Green Membership
Voluntary
- Access to material (HRDC and non-HRDC) shared upon request
- Not-for-profit institutions that are primarily supported by public funds (e.g., government-funded national research institutions, public universities, international or regional research centers, professional organizations with no direct commercial activities, Civil Society and farmers’ organizations with no direct commercial activities etc.)
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