CSS 2018 & Seed Expo

Peter Bretting
National Program Leader
USDA-ARS


Peter Bretting, Ph. D., has served as USDA/ARS National Program Leader, Plant Germplasm and Genomes since 1998, and was promoted to Senior National Program Leader in 2004. This position involves co-leadership, coordination, and direction of a national program of crop genetic research conducted at more than 50 locations nationally, with an annual budget of approximately $190 million. He also has served as a USDA representative for the US government delegations for the negotiations of the UN-FAO International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, and the UN-UNEP Convention on Biological Diversity's International Regime on Access and Benefit-Sharing. He was awarded the American Seed Trade Association Chairman’s Distinguished Service Award in 2009.

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