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PaDIL
PaDIL is an image based website designed to create a 'virtual reference collection of pests and diseases'. Ken Walker tells us more about PaDIL and how it is used to identify a range of pests and diseases.
Outcome
Detection: More effective national surveillance systems.
Goal
A more effective national surveillance system based on scientifically sound sampling tools and survey methodologies.
Indicators of success
Economic:
Deployment of new monitoring applications to enhance scientific defensibility of market access for stored grains.
Science:
Surveillance tools developed and peer reviewed through scientific publication and invitations to present at key meetings, conferences and workshops.
Policy:
New surveillance tools and procedures are used by end-users to support market access outcomes.
Capacity/Collaboration:
Tools and standardised procedures are delivered to end-users through training.
Impact/Adoption:
New tools (statistical tools, automated traps, Personalised Digital Assistants) are used by end-users to enhance existing surveillance processes.
Surveillance Research Projects
| Title | Leader |
| CRC30009: Grains Surveillance Strategy | Dr Sharyn Taylor |
This project improved the preparedness of Australia's grain industry for incursions of Emergency Plant Pests (EPPs) by developing a national surveillance plan to support market access and provide more | |
| CRC30014: PDA-Assisted Surveillance (phase one) | Mr Robert Emery |
There are increasing international concerns about food quality and safety. Import requirements are becoming more demanding and exporters including Australia now need not only to declare they are more | |
| CRC30015: Hyperspectral Pathogen Detection | Ms Alison Mackie |
The project will provide improved surveillance tools for rapid, widespread detection of plant pathogens in crops and native vegetation by producing a library of unique spectral signatures that more | |
| CRC30022: Female Lures: Fruit Fly Trapping | Dr Katina Lindhout |
This project developed female fruit fly lures to improve pest surveillance technology. These will aid in the detection and control of fruit fly species not attracted to the currently deployed more | |
| CRC30023: Smart Trap Scoping Study | Dr Louise Morin |
Biosecurity insect trapping programs in Australia use low-cost or disposable units which are inspected on a weekly or fortnightly basis, and re-lured or replaced monthly or quarterly. Inspectors more | |
| CRC30032: Flying Spore Traps | Felipe Gonzalez |
This project was a scoping study to determine the potential of using an unmanned aerial vehicle, fitted with a spore trap, to detect and monitor spores of plant pathogens. The aim was to develop a more | |
| CRC30039: Fruit Fly Area Freedom | Dr Francis De Lima |
This project developed a dynamic, strategic trapping system which provides a similar or higher level of confidence as current static, passive grid systems in areas free from Queensland and more | |
| CRC30062: AIMS | Mr Robert Emery |
The aim of this project is to develop a rapid and customised (for Australia) internet web crawler which will detect organisations who would intend to market via the internet, regulated organisms more | |
| CRC30064: Resistance management of stored grain insects in the southern region | Dr Joanne Holloway |
Resistance in grain storage insects to chemical treatments continues to be a problem throughout the southern region. Regional surveys have detected new sites of strong phosphine resistance, with more | |
| CRC30065: Resistance monitoring and management of stored grain insects in the northern region | Dr Manoj Nayak |
A range of grain storage pests including beetles, psocids, moths and mites habitually threaten the food safety, market access, trade and the overall profitability and sustainability more | |
| CRC30086: Stored Grains Sampling Strategies | Dr Grant Hamilton |
This project developed flexible and statistically robust systems to calibrate and improve sampling strategies where required for the detection of post-harvest grain storage pests, and for more | |
| CRC30133: Urban surveillance | |
There are two important reasons why pests including Emergency Plant Pests (EPPs) can become established in urban areas and spread to nearby horticultural or agricultural areas. First, urban more | |
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE
PROGRAM TAGS
Outcome
Response: Reduced losses from incursions by harmful pests and diseases.
Goal
Reduced economic and social impact from incursions of harmful pests and diseases through new control, risk mitigation and recovery strategies.
Indicators of success
Economic:
Decreased economic and social cost for future pest and disease eradications and scientific defensibility of market access conditions.
Science:
New tools to optimise incursion responses accepted by peers through scientific publication and invitations to present at key meetings, conferences and workshops.
Policy:
New tools to manage plant biosecurity threats are integrated into response strategies through consultation with end-users.
Impact/Adoption:
New procedures for the eradication of plant biosecurity threats are used by end-users.
Impact Management Research Projects
| Title | Leader |
| CRC40005: Rice Blast | Dr Ric Cother |
Rice blast, caused by Magnaporthe grisea, is generally considered the most important disease of rice worldwide because of its extensive distribution and destructiveness under favourable more | |
| CRC40006: Russian Wheat Aphid | Dr Owain Edwards |
This project will improve the level of preparedness for, and the sustainable resistance to, the Russian wheat aphid. it will also assist Australia's grain industry to remain free of Russian wheat more | |
| CRC40016: Pathogen Eradication Strategies | Dr Mark Sosnowski |
This project will provide alternative eradication strategies for emergency plant pest incursions on perennial crops. It will also reduce economic costs and social impact from emergency plant pest more | |
| CRC40024: Insect Eradication (phase one) | Mr Bill Woods |
Eradication of arthropod harmful plant pest incursions has often relied on destructive technologies such as crop removal and broad spectrum pesticide application. This strategy incurs a more | |
| CRC40035: Risk management processes for the movement of samples during an emergency plant pest (EPP) incursion | |
The objective of CRC40035 was to review the process of moving emergency plant pest (EPP) samples during incursion, determine critical control points to manage risks and make recommendations for more | |
| CRC40049: A community based model to manage emergency plant pests (phase one) | Prof Ian Falk |
This project will develop new policies and strategies to improve the management of emergency plant pest incursions. It will increase community and indigenous participation to identify, prevent and more | |
| CRC40050: Post Entry Quarantine (phase one) | Dr Brendan Rodoni |
This project developed advanced molecular diagnostic methods and immunological tools for the detection of plant viruses, which can be expediently applied in both post entry quarantine (PEQ) more | |
| CRC40088: Pre-harvest fruit fly | Dr Anthony Clarke |
The average gross value of Australian Horticulture over the past three years is estimated at over $7 billion per year. Most of this is not consumed close to the source, but is transported to more | |
| CRC40121: Biosecure packaging | Ms Barbara Hall |
Previously there were no guidelines for people to transport plant, soil and insect samples into and between laboratories. With the move to include harmful pests and diseases in the United more | |
| CRC40136: Insect Eradication (Phase two) | Mr Bill Woods |
As part of phase two of our Insect Eradication more | |
| CRC40139: Pathogen Eradication Strategies (Phase two) | Dr Mark Sosnowski |
As part of phase two of our Pathogen Eradication Strategies project, we developed more | |
| CRC40142: Airport Forensics | Ms Dominie Wright |
Airport Forensics was a joint project with Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC). This project defined the plant more | |
| CRC40180: SPHDS Ratification of Protocol for Potyviruses | Dr Brendan Rodoni |
The recently completed CRCNPB funded project (CRC40135) “Improved Post Entry Quarantine Diagnostics” has developed a diagnostic protocol to detect at least 40 known and unknown more | |
PROGRAM LEADER
Ms Jane Moran
Program Leader Impact Management
Email: j.moran@crcplantbiosecurity.com.au
Phone: 03 9210 9210
Fax: 03 9887 3609
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