Australian Plant Biosecurity Science Foundation

Investing in plant biosecurity science for Australia

[Michael Robinson @DrMBRobinson]

Australia’s native plants are experiencing their own pandemic. The myrtle rust fungus is silently killing our seedlings, saplings and established trees. Hundreds of Australian species are susceptible.

Watch here: https://t.co/n3qRTyvZiI

[Australian Plant Biosecurity Science Foundation @PlantAustralian]

A new report led by Dr Angus Carnegie of NSW DPI has shown the potential of using new technologies in combination could save significant time and money for urban forest #biosecurity surveillance.
Find the full report https://t.co/nqEnyWzWth.

[Australian Plant Biosecurity Science Foundation @PlantAustralian]

Protecting our unique ecosystems on K’gari (Fraser Island) by expanding environmental #biosecurity and #myrtlerust capacity … Geoff Pegg (QDAF) and his team have significantly enhanced the capacity to protect K’gari with a two year Foundation project. https://t.co/VWGlSxMWEY

[Australian Plant Biosecurity Science Foundation @PlantAustralian]

Grow it, Taste it, Don't waste it! Another successful Schools Plant Science Competition by the QDAF: over 3,600 participants from 130 schools across Australia and 155 competition entries that was all part of the 2021 Int. Year of the Fruit and Vegetable. https://t.co/RzvsW8ueed

[Plant Health Aust @planthealthaust]

PHA offers a free #biosecurity course for beekeepers. This course supports the Australian Honey Bee Industry Biosecurity Code of Practice and is one way to meet the training requirement of the Code. 🐝🐝🐝 https://t.co/rJ6gwmujc1
#biosecurity #honeybees #freetraining

[Australian Plant Biosecurity Science Foundation @PlantAustralian]

@DrMCMoffitt @westernsydneyu and her project partners have confirmed their metabolomics methods from PBSF027 are suitable for differentiating Myrtle Rust resistant and susceptible phenotypes in Eucalytpus grandis. Find out more. https://t.co/xB5lnXv0Os

[Australian Plant Biosecurity Science Foundation @PlantAustralian]

Three fungicides were evaluated with beneficial effects against the Myrtle Rust and QSB. The efficacy of the two novel fungicides warrants further investigation. #biosecurity @usceduau
https://t.co/9oxtDGS8By

[Australian Plant Biosecurity Science Foundation @PlantAustralian]

The Foundation continues focus on urban and peri-urban plant #biosecurity - following https://t.co/SW74epONaE, Helen McGregor and @JessicaLye are investigating learning and engagement strategies using community gardens in culturally diverse communities … https://t.co/KMOSbJbTHW

[Urban Plant Health Network @UrbanPlantHlth]

Have you spotted a spotted lanternfly? They're not present in Australia yet and we'd like to keep it that way....
https://t.co/ViWHqGdO4l

[Australian Plant Biosecurity Science Foundation @PlantAustralian]

Time is running out for our #biosecurity funding round: get in touch if you want to submit a proposal to us ...

[Australian Plant Biosecurity Science Foundation @PlantAustralian]

The Foundation calls for new plant #biosecurity proposals, focus on the following areas:
*Education and community awareness;
*Urban and peri-urban biosecurity;
*Indigenous participation in biosecurity;
*Biosecurity for World Heritage Areas.
https://t.co/fELcRtIeYu

[Australian Plant Biosecurity Science Foundation @PlantAustralian]

The Foundation calls for new plant #biosecurity proposals, focus on the following areas:
*Education and community awareness;
*Urban and peri-urban biosecurity;
*Indigenous participation in biosecurity;
*Biosecurity for World Heritage Areas.
https://t.co/fELcRtIeYu

[Australian Plant Biosecurity Science Foundation @PlantAustralian]

#myrtlerut threatens many native plant species ... sign a Statement of Concern asking the Federal Government to implement the Myrtle Rust National Action Plan: https://t.co/4CBNxz7PWU

[Australian Plant Biosecurity Science Foundation @PlantAustralian]

Responses of a wet sclerophyll forest in Qld to repeated infestation of #myrtlerust show significant mortality in key species with big changes in canopy gaps, species composition and vegetation cover. Ass Prof Firn from QUT just submitted her Report https://t.co/dI7H0vfjW2

[Australian Plant Biosecurity Science Foundation @PlantAustralian]

Ass Prof David Lee of USC established 3 trials in a young environmental planting and a 13 year old planting at Doonan: baseline data collected on the impact of myrtle rust and Quambalaria shoot blight before and after fungicide treatment. PBSF036 https://t.co/fh5GJkeCbT

[Australian Plant Biosecurity Science Foundation @PlantAustralian]

Dr Angus Carnegie (NSW DPI) is progressing remote sensing technologies, coupled with machine learning to improve the efficiency of host-tree surveillance in urban biosecurity hot-spots. His progress report, working with ArborCarbon Pty Ltd is at https://t.co/KWTnEWPOp2.

[Australian Plant Biosecurity Science Foundation @PlantAustralian]

Working with indigenous communities on Myrtle Rust - Dr Carnegie reports on how he has been working to enhance indigenous community capacity to assess the impacts of myrtle rust on Myrtaceae in ecologically and culturally significant rainforests. https://t.co/WVgtqKq7Ew

[Plant Health Aust @planthealthaust]

Do you have an idea you'd like to share or a new concept, research or innovation to introduce to the biosecurity collective? Abstracts for the 2nd Australian Biosecurity Symposium are open. Find out more at https://t.co/2GngiORKHc

[Australian Plant Biosecurity Science Foundation @PlantAustralian]

fascinating work - happy that the Foundation can support it!

[Michelle Moffitt @DrMCMoffitt]

#myrtlerust was first detected in Northern Territory in May 2016 and is infecting many NT natives.