A new partnership aimed at strengthening plant biosecurity has been signed today between the Plant Biosecurity Research Initiative (PBRI) and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR).
The PBRI has launched three podcasts on the impact and management of fall armyworm for growers across Australia.
A PBRI paper on ‘Science diplomacy for plant health’ was published in the scientific journal Nature Plants, coinciding with the IPPC International Year of Plant Health 2020.
The Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management, David Littleproud, announced that the funding for the PBRI has been renewed.
Australia’s PBRI has signed an MOU with the European Phytosanitary Research and Coordination network, Euphresco.
Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) is an exotic pest that has recently been detected for the first time in the Torres Strait and at the tip of Cape York in Far North Queensland.
Garnering support across Australia to protect plants from pests and diseases was the aim of the launch of the International Year of Plant Health at Parliament House, Canberra on 6 February 2020 supported by the PBRI. For the first time in history, the United Nations General Assembly has focused global attention on plant health by […]
A new course called ‘Researchers – Pest Reporting and Responses’ has been launched on Plant Health Australia’s Biosecurity Online Training (BOLT) platform which provides free access to plant biosecurity e-learning courses. The course is for researchers who might come in contact with new or unusual plant pests in Australia and was developed to fill a […]
The EPPO–Euphresco Colloquium ‘Plant Health at the age of metagenomics’ brought together scientists and regulators who are involved in plant health. By sharing experiences and information, together we can better understand the possibilities that metagenomics offers and how to use the vast amounts of information that will become available to improve protection of plant health. […]
Springer Science + Business Media has expressed strong interest in publishing a second edition of The Handbook of Plant Biosecurity, Principles and Practices for the Identification, Containment, and Control of Organisms that Threaten Agriculture and the Environment Globally. The first edition, edited by Gordon Gordh and Simon McKirdy, was published in 2014 and has enjoyed great […]