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Research collaboration with Australian plant biosecurity center set to secure food supplies, increase academic exchanges

Research collaboration with Australian plant biosecurity center set to secure food supplies, increase academic exchanges | Plant health | Scoop.it
From www.expertclick.com - February 22, 2012 12:10 PM

Research collaboration between US (Kansas State University will be the only American university involved) and Australian plant biosecurity center.


Officials at Kansas State University and at Australia's leading plant pests research center are finalizing an agreement for a collaboration aimed at increasing agricultural security in both countries.

Once formalized, the six-year partnership will pair Kansas State University plant pathology and entomology experts with those from the Australian Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre, or CRC. The center is a consortium among several of Australia's leading governmental research institutions and universities. Through this partnership, researchers will study emerging plant diseases and insect pests that threaten American and Australian agricultural systems and develop new strategies and technologies to defend against them.


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Damaging citrus plant disease confirmed in Texas

From www.brownsvilleherald.com (via @BeepRuthJac) - January 21, 2012 11:45 AM

The Brownsville Herald (18 Jan 2012): Damaging citrus plant disease was for the first time confirmed in the Rio Grande Valley.

 

The same news were reported by The Monitor and Washington Examiner. A destructive citrus bacterial disease known to occure in crops in Florida has been confirmed in Texas. The citrus greening disease is spread by insect vector - citrus psyllid.  

The Texas Department of Agriculture and the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service APHIS have confirmed the first detection in Texas of citrus greening, a destructive plant disease that poses a threat to the state’s citrus industry. The disease was discovered in a tree in a commercial orange grove in San Juan.

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Diseases of Fruit Crops & Ornamentals: Resistant Fire Blight bacteria in New York

Diseases of Fruit Crops & Ornamentals: Resistant Fire Blight bacteria in New York | Plant health | Scoop.it
From nicolewarduk.blogspot.com - January 14, 2012 5:47 PM

The rapid identification of this outbreak positions us to implement a coordinated plan leading up to next year's growing season,” said Herb Aldwinckle, professor of plant pathology and plant-microbe biology at Cornell university.

 

Cornell plant pathologists have issued a warning to New York apple and pear growers after discovering a strain of fire blight that is resistant to such traditional treatments in USA as the antibiotic streptomycin.

 

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