PQR - the EPPO database on quarantine pests: new update
PQR - the EPPO database on quarantine pests (geographical distributions, host plants, regulatory status, pathways, and pictures) was updated on 2014-09-08. If PQR has already been installed on your computer, when opening the database you will be automatically notified that a new update is available.
The following new items have been added since the previous update (2014-03-06)
- New world distributions: e.g. Dendroctonus valens, Raffaelea lauricola, Tomato chlorotic spot virus, Xyleborus glabratus, Zaprionus indianus, Zaprionus tuberculatus.
- New pest pictures: e.g. Chrysanthemum stem necrosis virus, Heterodera elachista, ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’, Ophraella communa, Parthenium hysterophorus.
- All recent data from the EPPO Reporting Service (February 2014 to August 2014) and updated pest statuses sent by several NPPOs of EPPO member countries.
If you have not already installed PQR on your computer, you can download it (free) from the EPPO website: http://www.eppo.int/DATABASES/pqr/pqr.htm
Sources
EPPO Secretariat (2014-09).