Progress 10/01/20 to 09/30/21
Outputs
Target Audience:Professionals in different professions including entomology, plant pathology, horticulture, biology, economics, risk analysis, geospatial studies, design and art, and computer science.APHIS, EPA, other USDA departments, landgrant universities, extension specialists and agents. Changes/Problems:COIVD-19 put a HUGE damper of our outreach programs, our research funding, and made collaborative efforts especially difficult. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?We have multiple websites, we publish in peer reviewed articles, we write popular press articles, and we also respond directly to our stakeholders through reeporting, documentation, and virtual meetings. We also give webinars, and publish a newsletter. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Keep working to support our stakeholders.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
With its own USDA-certified data center, CIPM develops, deploys, and manages information systems that support critical objectives of the USDA, states and international cooperators to prevent introduction of invasive pests. Core projects in CIPM's plant biosecurity focus area include, but are not limited to, (1) PestLens, an application that monitors and reports information on exotic pest spread outside the U.S. borders, (2) the Global Pest and Disease Database (GPDD) a searchable archive of biological information on thousands of pests including insects, nematodes, plant pathogens, mollusks and weeds, (3) Objective Prioritization of Exotic Pests (OPEP), a decision support system for optimal resource allocation that prioritizes exotic pests based on the potential to impact agriculture and natural resources in the United States, (4) Spatial Analytic Framework for Advanced Risk Information Systems (SAFARIS) that provides federal stakeholders with a system that forecasts exotic species behavior for assisting pest survey, risk assessments, pest emergency responses and economic assessments, (5) New Pest Response Guidelines (NPRGs), which provides a detailed plan of action to the federal stakeholders on rapid identification, sampling, response and mitigation measures to eradicate or contain invasive pests soon after their detection, (6) Not Approved Pending Pest Risk Analysis (NAPPRA) pest datasheets that provide the scientific basis for APHIS proposals to prohibit the importation of a non-native plant species until analyzed for risk, and (7) Commodity Treatment Information System (CTIS), a web-accessible suite of applications that tracks pests and/or commodities that undergo quarantine treatments (cold treatment, fumigation, irradiation, etc.). (8) Directed efforts, working with USDA Plant Protection and Quarantine program (PPQ) mission to A) prevent the entry and spread of agricultural threats to agriculture (i.e., pests and diseases) in the United States, and B) to facilitate safe trade with our trading partners. These agreements are fulfilled by providing qualified personnel to increase and further support analyst capacity that prepare risk assessments and pathway analyses for domestic and international trade at PPQ. Highlights of specific and selected accomplishments under our focus area of Regulatory Pest Informatics include: • CIPM advanced knowledge of potential invasive pests through the PestLens program. PestLens monitored 350+ scientific journals, 10+ listservs, 40+ web sites, and numerous automated web queries. CIPM personnel who manage PestLens wrote 205 articles during the last reporting year distributed through a weekly email/web alert system resulting in 444 USDA decisions. • Pests of priority concern were selected through CIPM's leadership with the Objective Prioritization of Exotic Pests (OPEP) Impact Model program for arthropods and plant pathogens developed a scoring system was developed in which questions with the greatest power in terms of predicting pest impact in the United States are weighted the most. The arthropod and pathogen models have been fully validated, and were used to create a "Pests of Economic and Environmental Importance List," one of the two Priority Pest Lists for a national surveillance program called Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS). • Global Pest and Disease Database (GPDD) is one of the web applications that is constantly being accessed by our federal stakeholders. This massive database includes detailed vetted information on more than 6000 exotic pests (this is more than twice the number of CABI full datasheets) and more than a million data points with information on global distribution, hosts, citations and archived pdfs of literature review and stakeholder documents. During this reporting period, there were more than 15,000 logins to GPDD suggesting that this is a valuable resource to our stakeholders. • Priority pests were identified and New Pest Response Guidelines (NPRGs) were prepared. In the last year, 4 documents created/updated, 5 Pre-Assessments completed, 5 additional NPRGs are currently being written/in review and 9 were completed and uploaded to the USDA database. • CIPM gathered and documented data, reviewed and interpreted highly technical scientific information and government reports, wrote, and presented reports on various arthropods, plant pathogens, mollusks and weeds, which aided to exclude, respond to or recover from exotic pests that may enter, establish, spread or impact the United States. A total of 348 reports or technical documents were prepared by CIPM personnel (most not tracked in our publications list) plus 18 special reports/products related to risk, economics or trade. For example, CIPM were instrumental in developing data and communications to design a systems-based approach to limit weed seed contamination in soybean exports, a critical component needed to protect a (2018) $12.4 billion export industry to China. II. Strategic Pest Management: • The Southern IPM Center (SIPMC), housed at CIPM, secured over $1.1 million/year to foster the development and adoption of IPM to generate economic, environmental, and human health benefits. SIPMC leveraged the unique strengths of three land-grant institutions in partnership with stakeholders from agricultural, urban and rural settings to identify and address Southern regional priorities for research, education, and outreach. SIPMC coordinated, enhanced and facilitated the flow of resources and information on a regional basis, including grants management, data acquisition and sharing, infrastructure development, and the documentation needed to provide accountability for resources used. Twelve projects were funded in 2020. 2) SIPMC also designed and advanced innovative data collection/ database tools to monitor and manage priority pests such as coffee berry borer, and worked to develop various handbooks on subjects such as Field Peas in Georgia and Greenhouse Poinsettia in Texas. The Center also launched a new regional website and a separate national website in June of 2019, further streamlining efforts to spread information about regional IPM and funding opportunities. SIPMC continued to sustain a regulatory information network which includes partners in all 13 Southern states and 2 territories, for rapid responses across the South to pest priority issues, designed tools for project evaluation and made numerous awards to outstanding individuals for their leadership in IPM. • SAFARIS - CIPM advanced collaborations with the Climate Office of North Carolina to understand the availability and accuracy of weather/climate data, Lincoln University (New Zealand) to develop methods to evaluate and reduce uncertainties associated with pest forecasts, the USDA Climate Hubs to examine climate change effects on alien species and to develop early warning systems to deliver timely alerts based on pest forecasts • RIDEM - CIPM provided research and outreach leadership for Risk-based and Infectious Disease Epidemiological Modelling (RIDEM). We designed the models to support integrated pest/disease management programs by providing risk-based and quantitative decision making tools for growers, policy makers, regulatory agencies, and applied researchers. Combining risk variables with geographic information system (GIS) data, we designed surveys and maps for stakeholders, helping facilitate the appropriation of fiscal and human resources for careful and cost-effective sampling for major issues that threaten USA specialty crops.
Publications
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
A probabilistic census-travel model to predict introduction sites of exotic plant, animal and human
pathogens.
Gottwald T, Luo W, Posny D, Riley T, and Louws F.
Peer-reviewed Journal: Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences
The census-travel model is versatile and independent of pathosystems, and applies a risk algorithm to
generate risk maps for plant, human and animal contagions at different spatial scales. An interactive,
user-friendly interface is available online to provide ease-of-use for regulatory agencies for early
detection of high-risk exotics. The interface allows users to parametrize and run the model without
knowledge of background code and underpinning data.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Canine olfactory detection of a vectored phytobacterial pathogen, Liberibacter asiaticus, and
integration with disease control. 2020.
Gottwald T, Poole G, McCollum T, Hall D, Hartung J, Bai J, Luo W, Posny D, Duan YP, Taylor
E, da Graca J, Polek M, Louws F, and Schneider W. PNAS
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Caton, B. P., H. Fang; N. Manoukis; G. R. Pallipparambil. 2020. Simulation-based
optimization of delimitation trapping surveys for insect pests. Plant Protection and
Quarantine (PPQ), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, U.S. Department of
Agriculture; Agricultural Research Service (ARS), U.S. Department of Agriculture; Center
for Integrated Pest Management (CIPM), North Carolina State University. 22 pp.
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Caton, B. P., H. Fang; N. Manoukis; G. R. Pallipparambil. 2020. Guidelines for creating
and implementing perimeter-and-core delimiting surveys for insects and other mobile plant
pests. Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service,
U.S. Department of Agriculture; Agricultural Research Service (ARS), U.S. Department of
Agriculture; Center for Integrated Pest Management (CIPM), North Carolina State
University. 25 pp.
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Caton, B. P., H. Fang; N. Manoukis; G. R. Pallipparambil. 2020. Simulation analysis of the
performance of detection trapping surveys for the European grapevine moth in California,
and seasonality of detections. Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ), Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Agricultural Research Service
(ARS), U.S. Department of Agriculture; Center for Integrated Pest Management (CIPM),
North Carolina State University. 13 pp.
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Caton, B. P., H. Fang; N. Manoukis; G. R. Pallipparambil. 2020. Simulation-based
analysis of perimeter design specifications for delimiting trapping surveys for insect
pests. Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service,
U.S. Department of Agriculture; Agricultural Research Service (ARS), U.S. Department of
Agriculture; Center for Integrated Pest Management (CIPM), North Carolina State
University. 6 pp.
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Caton, B. P., H. Fang; N. Manoukis; G. R. Pallipparambil. 2020. Simulation-based
analysis of the 9-mile-by-9-mile fruit fly trapping grids. Plant Protection and Quarantine
(PPQ), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture;
Agricultural Research Service (ARS), U.S. Department of Agriculture; Center for
Integrated Pest Management (CIPM), North Carolina State University. 14 pp
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Colmar, S., McKenzie, C.L., Luo, W., Osborne, L.S. 2020. First report of Bemisia tabaci
Mediterranean (biotype Q) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in the Dominican Republic. Florida
Entomol 102(4): 778-782.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Hicks, C. B., Bloem, K., Pallipparambil, G. R., & Hartzog, H. M. 2020. 2 Reported Long-
Distance Flight of the Invasive Oriental Fruit Fly and Its Trade Implications. In: Area-
Wide Management of Fruit Fly Pests, edited by Diana Perez-Staples, Francisco Diaz-
Fleischer, Pablo Montoya, Maria Teresa Verapp pp 9-27. CRC Press, Baton Rouge,
Florida
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Hilf, M.E. Luo W. (2020) Vacuum-Assisted Infiltration of Citrus Leaves to Identify
Antimicrobial Compounds Effective against Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus. Plant
Disease, 104: 1894-1899.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Luo W, Posny D, Kriss AB, Graham JH, Poole GH, Taylor EL, McCollum G, Gottwald
TR, and Bock CH. 2020. Seasonal and post-harvest population dynamics of the Asiatic
citrus canker pathogen Xanthomona axonopodis pv. citri on grapefruit in Florida. Crop
Protection 105227. doi: 10.1016/j.cropro.2020.105227
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Magarey, R. D., Klammer, S. S., Chappell, T. M., Trexler, C. M., Pallipparambil, G. R., &
Hain, E. F. (2019). Eco?efficiency as a strategy for optimizing the sustainability of pest
management. Pest Management Science, 75(12), 3129-3134.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.5560
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Xia, Y., Fan, G., and G. Ouyang. 2020. Trapping tephritid fruit flies (Diptera: tephritidae) in
citrus groves of Fujian province of China. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, July 15,
2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aspen.2020.06.005
- Type:
Book Chapters
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Magarey, R.D., Meentemyer, R.D. and Grunwald, N.J. 2020. Geospatial Analytics for
Plant Disease Management. In: A.R.a.J. Ristaino (Editor), Emerging Plant Diseases and
Global Food Security. APS Press, St Paul, MN.
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