Commission on Phytosanitary Measures

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CMP 2011/INF/5

COMMISSION ON PHYTOSANITARY MEASURES

Sixth Session

Rome, 14-18 March 2011

List of Posters and Exhibits during
the 6th Session of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures

1. A list of posters that will be displayed in the atrium during CPM-6 is attached (at 23 February 2011).

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CMP 2011/INF/5/Rev.1

LIST OF POSTERS AND EXHIBITS DURING
THE 6th SESSION OF THE COMMISSION ON PHYTOSANITARY MEASURES

The table below provides detailed information regarding the posters that will be displayed in the atrium during CPM-6.

Category / Organizer / Summary /
Plant pest diagnostics / Australian NPPO / Title: See PaDIL for diagnostic images for pest identifications
Summary: Rapid recognition of regulated pests is critical to ensure appropriate response strategies are implemented. Diagnosticians require access to resources to ensure evidence based decisions are made on correct identifications. No single laboratory can house specimens of all pest species. This is where PaDIL – Pests and Diseases Image Library http://www.padil.gov.au can help. PaDIL contains high quality diagnostic images and information on pests. Within its portal is the Plant Biosecurity Toolbox that provides detailed diagnostic information to assist with the rapid identification of exotic plant pests in the event of an incursion.
PaDIL is a capacity building biosecurity website which provides high quality images of pests. Its knowledge-base is built on specimen access to the collections of the world, combined with taxonomic skills that enable scientific literature, especially keys, to be translated into diagnostic images. The new and revised PaDIL has abandoned the hierarchical query system and has adopted the E-commerce query exploration system (as used by eBay, Amazon etc) to allow the user to effectively navigate the site. This system allows the user to explore and navigate through the contents of its catalogue (or database).
Plant pest diagnostics / Richard Smith
BioNET Secretariat, CABI / Title: BioNET Regional Diagnostics Networks: prevention of invasive species, enhancement of pest management and facilitation of trade
Summary: Effective prevention of introduced invasive / pest species is based upon accurate and timely identification of species that are new to a country or territory. Many countries lack this diagnostic capacity resulting in heightened biosecurity risks and lost trade opportunities due to an inability to meet international phytosanitary standards. BioNET, the global network for taxonomy, has developed a regional diagnostic network approach to address these needs. The BioNET model has been pioneered by BioNET-ASEANET in Southeast Asia. Although still in its pilot phase, the ASEAN Regional Diagnostic Network can already report significant results. It links national plant protection authorities to relevant experts drawn from a diagnostic expertise registry via national and regional clearing houses. The regional clearing house facility includes a remote microscope, allowing diagnoses of many specimens without their movement outside the region. The process meets international best practice, ensuring confidentiality until the client elects to publish the record. Clearing house records are used to identify gaps in expertise, collections and other resources which are addressed by targeted training and a programme to develop tools and regional resources. The BioNET Secretariat, a programme of CABI, is working with partner institutions to adapt the ASEAN model to other regions.
Plant pest diagnostics / Schindel David
Consortium for the Barcode of Life / Title: DNA Barcoding for Species Identification
Summary: DNA barcoding uses a standardized gene sequence as a tool for identifying and separating species. CBOL is a global consortium devoted to developing and promoting barcoding. It has 205 Member Organizations in 54 countries. iBOL is a five-year project to barcode 5 million specimens in 500,000 species. It has 26 member countries.
Two posters will present results from the Tephritid (fruit fly) Barcoding Initiative (TBI) organized and supported by CBOL. They demonstrate the effectiveness of barcoding in separating closely-related species of African tephritids and Medfly that are very difficult to distinguish as adults and impossible to diagnose as juveniles.
The third poster presents the results of an iBOL study of a widespreand and economically important genus of leafhopper (Orosius)
Plant pest diagnostics / Assunta Bertaccini
Quarantine Barcode of Life / Title:
Summary: DNA barcoding has arisen as a robust and standardised approach to species identification. QBOL, a new project funded by EU FP7 aims to create a public reference database of diagnostic DNA sequences for all quarantine plant pathogens and to make it available for plant health diagnosticians. Some of the regions used in QBOL are formally approved BARCODE regions (e.g., COI in insects). Approval of other standard regions is in progress. Six work packages are dealing with finding diagnostic discriminative sequences between target and non-target species within fungi, arthropods, bacteria, nematodes, viruses and phytoplasmas.
Climate change, expansion of the EU and the increase of international trade may facilitate the spread of phytoplasma associated diseases, therefore a quick and handy system for correct plant pathogen identification is in great demand. Phytoplasma 'barcoding' has been performed for many years, particularly using the 16S rDNA. Available sequences of elongation factor Tu (Tuf) and 16S genes were explored for selecting regions suitable for phytoplasma DNA 'barcoding' to develop robust markers from most, if not all phytoplasma ribosomal groups and/or 'Candidatus Phytoplasma' species using generic primers. The obtained sequences will be available in the newly developed QBOL database.
Plant pest diagnostics / Leland Humble
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service / Title: DNA barcoding and forest biosecurity
Summary: The ability to distinguish non-indigenous species (NIS) from native species is critical to the success of both phytosanitary surveillance programs and regulatory diagnostics. As detection systems for species of phytosanitary concern are often not specific to the target taxa, large samples dominated by native taxa are often acquired. Additionally, many species of potential quarantine significance are detected as immature life stages during regulatory inspections. In many cases they cannot be identified to species as a consequence of inadequate taxonomic knowledge for such lifestages, which precludes a regulatory response. We provide examples of the application of DNA barcoding to the identification of plant pests in forest biosurveillance research in Canada and of the development of regional and global DNA reference libraries that are the foundation for identification of unknown samples. We demonstrate the utility of this approach to the identification of species in biomonitoring studies that led to the detection of two new NIS for North America five new NIS for western Canada. The development of a publicly accessible DNA reference library for the identification of thirty-six Lymantria spp. from thirty-five countries is also reported as is a regional reference library for 400 species of looper moths.
Phytosanitary inspections (including freight containers)
Phytosanitary treatments
Plant pest diagnostics
Pest surveillance
Pest Risk Analysis
Other -International co-operation, twinning / Sam Bishop
FERA
Food and Environment Research Agency / Title: International Cooperation for plant health
Summary: FERA is increasingly involved in International Cooperation for plant health as part of its and the UK Government’s broader ambition to support global food systems and mitigate plant heath risk to the UK at source. With a focus on transition and developing countries, FERA has partnered with countries of all regions, but especially from Eastern Europe, East and North Africa and the Near Middle East. Through these partnerships FERA has actively looked to form lasting and 2-way ‘learning alliances’ that facilitate safer trade at national, regional and international scales. These efforts are consistent with the UK Government’s position and support of the IPPC and other international treaties such as the CBD and CITIES, and recognise the lead role FERA is able to play through its longstanding experience in plant health.
Pest surveillance / Magda González Arroyo
Costa Rican Servicio Fitosanitario del Estado, Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería / Title: Beneficios de exportación que ha tenido Costa Rica gracias al Programa de Moscas de la Fruta durante el año 2010.
Summary: Costa Rica has determined a market opportunity based on its phytosanitary condition and declared a Ceratitis capitata pest free area using the International Standard Phytosanitary Measures (ISMP´s) and maintaining the pest free area up to date with an extension of 24.474 ha from which 10.000 ha are oranges.
The coordinated work within Central America made possible important improvements in the control and monitoring systems of Ceratitis capitata and other species of Anastrepha, and also other quarantine fruit fly species.
Costa Rican growers have improved the quality of their exported fruit products and have accepted the challenge to export to countries like European Union and the United States, meeting high phytosanitary quality standards.
A joint work plan was signed with the Unites States using a Fruit Fly System Approach for ripe tomato grown in green houses for export since 2009. The value of the quantity of thee tomatoes in 2010 season reached US $1.4 million.
On the other hand, the mango fruit free from fruit fly allowed Costa Rica to export in 2010 US $5.5 million to European and the US market.
The Fruit Fly surveillance and monitoring program carried out in Costa Rica started in 1994 with quarantine species and in 2001 in was extended to other species of economic importance with the support of FAO, OIRSA, USDA/APHIS, SAGARPA, among other organizations.
More information: www.sfe.go.cr
Pest Risk Analysis / Alan MacLeod
UK Food and Environment Research Agency / Title: Pest risk analysis training material based on IPPC standards
Summary: Pest risk analysis training material based on IPPC standards
To help countries understand and implement the International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPMs) on pest risk analysis an international advisory group of PRA experts was established to develop a training course and training materials designed to increase countries' capacity to conduct PRA.
The training course is designed to take place over 5 days, and consists of 14 presentations that explain PRA concepts and practices. There are also many group exercises to reinforce learning. Three specific manuals and additional training resources are now available and can be downloaded from the IPPC website, https://www.ippc.int/index.php?id=186208
Training resources available include:
• a manual for participants
• a manual of group exercises
• PowerPoint presentations with speaker's notes
• a manual for instructors giving the course
The training material has been independently reviewed and was judged to be of high quality.
The training materials have been used at a variety of training events and workshops around the world. Phytosanitary officials that have taken part in such events have found the training extremely useful.
The development of the training package was financially supported by the STDF. Organisations such as the IAEA have supported individual training events.
-Pest free areas
-Plant pest diagnostics
-Pest surveillance / Gerald Glenn F. Panganiban
Philippines'
Bureau of Plant Industry Plant Quarantine Service / Title: Plant quarantine service: the Philippines' best defence against plant pests and diseases
Summary: The Philippines' plant quarantine service hopes to exhibit our best practices in the field of maintaining post-free areas, post-entry protocol for planting materials, and other plant quarantine activities that are based on out plant quarantine law and in compliance with the SPS agreement of the WTO. We hope to share how we have maintained the pest-free status of one of our regions and how this has contributed to the integrity of the Philippines' agriculture.
Other:
-  Phytosanitary inspections (including freight containers)
-  Plant pest diagnostics
-  Pest surveillance
-  Pest Risk Analysis
-  Capacity Building In Phytosanitary Services / James Onsando
KEPHIS / Title: CAPACITY BUILDING IN PHYTOSANITARY SERVICES
Summary: The Centre of Phytosanitary Excellence (COPE) was established to enhance the capacity of Africa’s phytosanitary systems, to protect agriculture, as well as increase the ability of the countries to compete in international markets. COPE is a sub-regional centre ‘without borders’. It aspires to be “An internationally recognised centre of phytosanitary expertise”. Objectives of COPE are to establish a framework for capacity building in Africa, tapping on expertise that already exists both in the region and internationally, provide pest risk analysis (PRA) services and training of phytosanitary inspectors, agricultural producers and other interested stakeholders in various countries. COPE was developed by a team of experts from 9 African countries, the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS), University of Nairobi (UoN), three members representing other NPPO’s (Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda), the Inter-African Phytosanitary Council (IAPSC) of the African Union, the Secretariat of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), CABI, the Netherlands Plant Protection Service (NPPS), COMESA and USAID Regional Mission for East Africa who also constitute the current advisory board. COPE’s achievements includes; setting up of an institutional framework, development of phytosanitary training courses, establishment of a (PRA) network. Creation of awareness about the centre. COPE was established with grants from the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) and Co-financing from the Netherlands and KEPHIS. COPE aims to be financially self sustaining, by charging for its services or sponsorship of clients by development partners. COPE will run in a business-like manner. As part of its marketing activities, COPE was officially launched at a regional event held in October 2010 in Nairobi. Establishment phase of COPE ended 2010.
Information management / Samy Gaiji
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) / Title: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Summary: Access to biodiversity-related information is increasing rapidly through the Internet. However, a major obstacle to transforming these data into knowledge is a lack of digital species-occurrence data and associated heterogeneity of data formats.
Through GBIF, scientists can publish specimen and observation databases online to global standards, while retaining ownership and custodianship, and thus become part of a growing distributed global network of shared biodiversity data. For many research communities, GBIF has been instrumental in enabling link-up of their distributed information resources -more than 200 million primary biodiversity data records are currently accessible through the GBIF portal. The information in the GBIF network is vital to the range of scientific communities investigating impacts of global change on species, crops, forestry, aquatic and livestock resources and related ecosystems services. GBIF has demonstrated the feasibility of linking existing data-holding institutions and individuals at national, regional and thematic levels to enable global on-line access to widely distributed, but related, datasets.