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 […]
Year 2020 has been declared as the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH) by the United Nations General Assembly to emphasise the importance of plant health protection in ending hunger, reducing poverty, protecting the environment and boosting economic development. IYPH aims to contribute to: raising awareness that plant health is crucial for all life on earth, how […]
The PBRI Plant Biosecurity Research Symposium was held at the Queensland State Library in Brisbane on the 15 and 16 August. The purpose of the symposium was to share plant biosecurity RD&E across plant industries in Australia and New Zealand, with an aim to avoid duplication of research on common biosecurity themes. This ‘sold-out’ event […]
The enthusiasm of participants at Exercise Blueprint highlights the desire of the cotton industry to be ready for a real-life incursion.
The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has partnered with Hort Innovation under the Plant Biosecurity Research Initiative (PBRI) to advance the use of next-generation genetic sequencing technologies, giving Australia’s horticulture sector a competitive boost through faster access to new plant stock. Current quarantine screening for pathogens in new plant genetic stocks can take up to 3 years Next […]
For the first time, Australia’s grape and wine sector knows with a high degree of accuracy not only that it has 146,128 hectares under vine, but also the locations of the plantings, following the completion of the first National Vineyard Scan, funded by Wine Australia.
Registrations are now open for our inaugural Plant Biosecurity Research Symposium. The two-day event will be held on 15 – 16 August, 2019 at The Edge, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane. We will hear from our growers and industry representatives on lessons learnt during biosecurity incursions and how we can better prepare using the best […]
