Current projects
- Risk ranking of quarantine pests using a FinnPRIO model
- The suitability of Finnish climate for the establishment of priority and emergency measures pests
- Pest risk monitoring and control in oilseed and leguminous crop production (Turikka)
- Quantitative horizon scanning using climatic modeling to identify species with the potential to become plant pests
- DeliSoil – Delivering Soil improvers through improved recycling and processing solutions for food industry residues streams
Previous projects
- Assessing the confidence in pest freedom gained in the past pine wood nematode surveys
- 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
- Pine wood nematode survey planning
- Plant health risks associated with side streams from potato processing
- PRAs on Orgyia leucostigma and Chionaspis pinifoliae
- The suitability of the Finnish climate for fire blight epidemics