OEPP (Organisation Européenne et Méditerranéenne pour la Protection des Plantes)

Interested by an international experience in another country ? 🗺️🧳🌱 The EPPO Jens-Georg Unger Plant Health Fellowship support #planthealth professionals from the EPPO region 📢Apply before September 5th: https://lnkd.in/eAptWEUK Don't hesitate to share with your network! Sarah Brunel Nico Horn Valerie Grimault

⚠ Addition to the EPPO Alert List – Myriophyllum rubricaule https://lnkd.in/eK-MxhkQ Myriophyllum rubricaule is a recently described plant species native in Chile. It has a limited distribution in the EPPO region. The EPPO Panel on Invasive Alien Plants are seeking further information on any additional occurrences of M. rubricaule in the EPPO region and reports of environmental and economic impacts. Photo: Courtesy: Johan Van Valkenburg

Read the main conclusions of the recent meeting of the EPPO Working Party on Plant Protection Products (Türkiye, 2024-05-28/30): https://lnkd.in/eVKni9bP This Working Party directs and supervises the technical work of the EPPO Panels concerned with the efficacy evaluation of plant protection products. Nico Horn Valerio Lucchesi Javier Martínez-Pérez

The latest edition of the EPPO Reporting Service is now available, featuring updates on emerging and quarantine pests as well as invasive plants. You can read it in both French and English. Explore it here: https://lnkd.in/eHwZW9aR All data are stored in the EPPO Global Database for easy retrieval and reference (https://gd.eppo.int/). Stay informed and help us protect plant health! 🌱 #HorizonScanning #PlantHealth #EPPO #InvasivePlants 

Read the 5th Newsletter of the EPPO Network of experts working on surveillance, monitoring, and control of Agrilus planipennis (Emerald ash borer) https://lnkd.in/eP_2bsKZ #planthealth #EAB Dmitrii Musolin

A short report of recent meeting of the EPPO Panel on Global Phytosanitary Affairs is available: https://lnkd.in/eajW9SbP Nico Horn, Valerio Lucchesi

⚠ Vascular streak dieback, an emerging disease of woody ornamentals in the USA: Addition to the EPPO Alert List https://lnkd.in/e-vvYW9y Vascular streak dieback is causing damage in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee and recently individual cases also occurred in nurseries in Indiana, Florida and Oklahoma. First recorded on redbud (Cercis canadensis) but since then detected in over 25 ornamental and woody plant genera. Photos:  Fulya Baysal-Gurel, Prabha Liyanapathiranage, Ph.D.

The EPPO Jens-Georg Unger Plant Health Fellowship enables #planthealth professionals from the EPPO region to gain international experience in another country through a secondment. 📢The 2024 call is now open. Apply before September 5th: https://lnkd.in/dA--q4h #fellowship #secondment

The EPPO Panel on Diagnostics in Nematology recently met in EPPO headquarters. To know more on their work, read a short report: https://lnkd.in/eZVN42E7 The Panel celebrated Vladimir Gaar (ÚKZÚZ, Czech republic), an active Panel member since 2007, on his retirement. Thanks for all your hard work, Vladimir! We will miss you

The EPPO network of experts working on Agrilus planipennis and some of the EPPO activities in Entomology were presented by Charlotte T. at the 5th workshop of the EU Reference Laboratory on insects and mites. Thank you for the interesting discussions and the fruitful collaboration. #planthealth #EURL More on the network: https://lnkd.in/e5pKKze4