Progress 10/03/17 to 09/30/18
Outputs
Target Audience:Farmers, greenhouse growers, facility managers, grounds maintenance personnel, pest management professionals, homeowners, Federal government, State Govenment, Professors, students, and Extention professionals Changes/Problems:CIPM is 99% self-funded. It would be great to have our College provide additional funds and support to our programs. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?We share relavent reports and papers directly with stakeholders. Aditionally, clearly anything published in journals are open to anyone resding those publications. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Designing sustainable pest management systems to limit losses due to established pests and invasives is a grand challenge faced by modern societies world-wide with local, regional and national-specific issues. CIPM seeks to provide innovative and flexible leadership to develop focused programs and advance the success of stakeholders, cooperators and citizens to understand and manage pests that threaten our agricultural, urban and natural resources. To that end, CIPM built programs that are interdisciplinary; typically combine research, extension and/or education components, and address the most critical stakeholder and national IPM priorities. Some major examples of programs and outcomes are highlighted below. CIPM worked with partners to safeguard agriculture and our natural resources from invasive plant pest species. Recent expanses in global trading patterns and international travel have increased the risk of exotic plant pest introductions. Non-indigenous species are estimated to cause annual losses of approximately $140 billion in the U.S. During this past year we developed, managed and deployed information systems and project outcomes that supported critical objectives of the USDA, states and cooperating international partners to prevent introduction of invasive pests. CIPM provided leadership and innovation with partners along the continuum of safeguarding our borders through proactive monitoring, pest prioritization, data gathering, international research, data analysis and optimizing outputs for decision makers. For example, CIPM developed and continuously populates an early warning system of potential invasives. CIPM personnel collated new reports of arthropods, plant pathogens, weeds, mollusks and other threats that were edited, added to a database and published through a weekly report. This early warning system enabled 2 expert input globally and provided a web-based platform for documenting safeguarding decisions and resulting actions. Pests that pose a concern to US agriculture and natural resources were prioritized, and if necessary further documented to allow regulatory decision makers to act on optimized data. CIPM also expanded databases and documentation on groups of pests (e.g. fruit flies) to prevent invasive pests from entering or becoming established in the US. CIPM also provided leadership in programs that seek to advance national food security. For example, CIPM works with multiple organizations and individuals who collect and disseminate pest data and CIPM believes regional IPM programs are best served through a shared platform. CIPM worked with Penn State University and engaged partners in Land Grant Universities (research, extension and teaching) and diverse stakeholders to build an iPIPE (integrated Pest Information Platform for Education and Extension) program. The iPIPE program seeks to (i) contribute to our nation's infrastructure for food security, (ii) build local and regional capacity to respond to food security problems involving crop pests, (iii) reduce adverse environmental effects from pest management practices, and (iv) enhance farm profitability. The project has implemented over 20 crop-pest programs across the nation. Through the process to date, the program has also trained over 30 undergraduate interns about the principles and practices of IPM. As another example, developed a team of postdocs, research scholars and technicians in close cooperation with USDA-ARS in Florida to provide risk-based and quantitative decision making tools for diverse decision makers and end-users. Models and outputs addressed some of the most pressing issues in understanding how to prevent plant pathogens and pests from destroying commercially and economically significant agricultural and ecological resources. Emphasis to date has focused on Citrus greening (huanglongbing; HLB) vectored by the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP). However, tools developed are widely applicable to other pathogens and insect issues including human diseases such as the Zika virus and Ebola. The Center also further designed and managed national databases of IPM programs, outcomes and products on the premise that national programming is best served through shared databases that serve government agencies, granting agencies and/or end users. CIPM also lead national IPM research and extension programs. For example, CIPM has been the lead agency to explore and implement vegetable grafting technologies for solanaceous and cucurbit fruiting vegetables in field production systems supported by the USDA Specialty Crops Research Initiative (SCRI). The project engaged 70 industry, state-agency, and grower partners and a team of over 37 senior and new career faculty spread over 10 institutions from the southeast 3 to northwest. The project developed strategic partnerships with domestic and international companies to integrate grafting technologies into major stakeholder industries (seed, robotics and nursery/propagation companies), and linked these partners to diverse fruiting-vegetable growers. Since the inception of the project, multiple seed and grafting supply companies have a new or stronger presence in the U.S. CIPM coordinated The Pesticide Environmental Stewardship (PES) website project. The PES is a central public repository (web portal) of information on proper pesticide handling and environmental stewardship. Content is targeted toward crop producers, commercial/professional applicators and pesticide dealers, with a separate section for homeowners. The website is supported by companies and NGOs and used by a national audience with links to state-specific compliance information, where available. CIPM also secured funds and managed the Southern IPM center (SIPMC) Partnership based on the core value that IPM is optimally served through regional networks of experts, practitioners and programs. SIPMC coordinated, enhanced and facilitated the flow of resources and information in integrated pest management on a regional basis, including grants management, data acquisition and sharing, infrastructure development, and the documentation needed to provide accountability for resources used. CIPM also secured funds and developed better coordination of a state-wide IPM program. In many cases, IPM issues are frequently local issues that directly impact urban and rural stakeholders on a daily basis. CIPM believes state-based extension IPM programs are best served through collaborative, participatory and trans-disciplinary coordination. This program coordinated over 26 NC State extension faculty for statewide impacts on multiple commodities and managed an array of arthropod, plant pathogenic and weed pests. The program has built an infrastructure of weather, pest and crop data to deliver pest forecasting and crop development models in a consistent and accurate manner by using web-based and mobile delivery tools; enhanced the Plant Disease and Insect Clinic capacity to database samples, images and information; implemented real-time data delivery systems for insect trap and pest monitoring programs in agronomic and specialty crops that can be published in near-real-time; launched a new website (ipm.ncsu.edu) for web-based and mobile delivery of IPM extension information; organized multiple state-wide and multi-county agent train-the-trainer programs; and managed a working group to address pollinator conservation and concerns from a Southern Region perspective.
Publications
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Donatelli, M. et al., 2017. Modelling the impacts of pests and diseases on agricultural systems.
Agricultural Systems 155:213-224.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Magarey, R.D. and Isard, S.A., 2017. A Troubleshooting Guide for Mechanistic Plant Pest
Forecast Models. J Integr Pest Manag 8 (1): 3.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Accepted
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Ojiambo PS, Gent DH, Mehra LK, et al. (2017). Focus expansion and stability of the spread
parameter estimate of the power law model for dispersal gradients. PeerJ. 5:e3465
- Type:
Book Chapters
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Orlandini, S., Magarey, R.D., Park, E.W., Sporleder, M. and Kroschel, J., 2017. Methods of
Agroclimatology: Modeling Approaches for Pests and Diseases. In: J.L. Hatfield, M.V.K.
Sivakumar and J.H. Prueger (Editors), Agroclimatology: Linking Agriculture to Climate.
Agronomy Monographs. American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of
America, and Soil Science Society of America, Inc., Madison, WI.
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
McQuate GT, Liquido NJ, Nakamichi KA (2017) Annotated world bibliography of host plants of
the melon fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae (Coquillett)(Diptera: Tephritidae). Published in 2017
by Center for Systematic Entomology, Inc. P. O. Box 141874 Gainesville, FL 32614-1874
USA http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/.
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