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Plant health

Current projects

  • Pine wood nematode survey planning
  • Plant health risks associated with side streams from potato processing
  • PRAs on Orgyia leucostigma and Chionaspis pinifoliae
  • Risk ranking of quarantine pests using a FinnPRIO model

Previous projects

  • Automatic assessment of the time suitable for the appearance of fire blight symptoms
  • Cost-benefit analysis of risk management measures and assessment of the areal risk to plant health
  • Development and application of a risk prioritization scheme of invasive agricultural and horticultural pests
  • Enhanced control of potato-infecting nematodes
  • Enhancement of efficiency of plant health inspection, risk assessment and control of healthy plant production by adoption of a broad spectrum diagnostic approach
  • Enhancing greenhouse producers’ ability to manage risks of quarantine pests
  • Enhancing the landscaping sector’s ability to manage the risks of quarantine pests
  • Identification of new pest threats to Nordic coniferous forests associated with trade of ornamental plants
  • Pathways of entry of pests and their significance
  • The suitability of the Finnish climate for fire blight epidemics

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Plant health risk assessment

Page last updated 9/14/2020

Projects of risk assessment

  • Plant health
  • Chemical food safety
  • Microbiological food safety
  • Epizootic diseases

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