The Biosecurity Continuum and Trade: Border Operations
With the development of modern transport systems, we see a rapid increase in the movement of plants and plant products around the globe. This increase in trade and travel has brought many benefits but there has been a corresponding expansion in the spread
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The Handbook of Plant Biosecurity Principles and Practices for the Identification, Containment and Control of Organisms that Threaten Agriculture and the Environment Globally
The Handbook of Plant Biosecurity
During 1893, European Gypsy Moth inspectors search for egg masses on an enormous elm tree at the Dexter mansion in Malden, Massachusetts. About 25 years earlier, EGM was purposefully introduced into the USA, escaped culture and continues to be a calamitous forest pest (Forbush and Fernald 1896. The Gypsy Moth. A report of the work of destroying the insect in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, together with an account of its history and habits both in Massachusetts and Europe, PLATE XXXVI: Men at work on the Dexter elm, Malden. From a photograph. Porthetria dispar (Linn.). Wright & Potter Printing, Boston, 495 pp). Photo courtesy of David Lance, Plant Protection and Quarantine. APHIS USDA)
Gordon Gordh • Simon McKirdy Editors
The Handbook of Plant Biosecurity Principles and Practices for the Identification, Containment and Control of Organisms that Threaten Agriculture and the Environment Globally
Editors Gordon Gordh Plant Protection and Quarantine USDA-APHIS Raleigh, NC, USA
Simon McKirdy Chevron Australia Pty Ltd Perth, WA, Australia Adjunct Professor School of Veterinary and Life Sciences Murdoch University Murdoch, WA, Australia
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