Plant Virus and Virus-like Disease Threats to Australia’s North Targeted by the Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy

Plant Virus and Virus-like Disease Threats to Australia’s North Targeted by the Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy

The Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy (NAQS) is a biosecurity initiative operated by the Australian federal government’s Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE). It is unique worldwide because it deals specifically with the potential arrival via unregulated pathways of exoti...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Plants (Basel) Vol. 10; no. 10; p. 2175
Main Authors: Davis, Richard I., Jones, Lynne M., Pease, Bradley, Perkins, Sandy L., Vala, Harshitsinh R., Kokoa, Pere, Apa, Marilyn, Dale, Christopher J.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Basel MDPI AG 14-10-2021
MDPI
Subjects:
Agriculture
Biosecurity
Collaboration
Collaborative work
Cotton
Federal government
Insects
Islands
Laboratories
Legumes
liberibacter
Pathogens
Pests
phytoplasma
Plant diseases
plant health
Plant viruses
Quarantine
Review
Sugarcane
Surveillance
Threats
virus
Viruses
Torres Strait Islands
New Guinea
Queensland Australia
Australia
Timor-Leste
Indonesia
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy (NAQS) is a biosecurity initiative operated by the Australian federal government’s Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE). It is unique worldwide because it deals specifically with the potential arrival via unregulated pathways of exotic threats from overseas in a vast and sparsely populated region. It aims to protect the nation’s animal- and plant-based production industries, as well as the environment, from incursions of organisms from countries that lie immediately to the north. These are diseases, pests, and weeds present in these countries that are currently either absent from, or under active containment in, Australia and may arrive by natural or human-assisted means. This review article focuses on the plant viruses and virus-like diseases that are most highly targeted by the NAQS program. It presents eight pathogen species/group entries in the NAQS A list of target pathogens, providing an overview of the historical and current situation, and collates some new data obtained from surveillance activities conducted in northern Australia and collaborative work overseas.
Bibliography:ObjectType-Article-2
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-3
content type line 23
ObjectType-Review-1
ISSN:2223-7747
2223-7747
DOI:10.3390/plants10102175