The National Plant Disease Recovery System (NPDRS) was established in January 30, 2004 per mandate of the Homeland Security Presidential Directive Number 9 (HSPD-9).

The directive established a national policy to defend US agriculture and food systems from terrorist attacks, major disasters, and other emergencies. The Secretary of Agriculture in cooperation with other Federal departments and agencies is directed to accelerate and expand development of current and new counter-measures against the intentional, inadvertent introduction or natural occurrence of catastrophic animal, plant, and zoonotic diseases.

A NPDRS is to be implemented to ensure that the tools, infrastructure, and capacity required to mitigate the impact of high consequence plant disease outbreaks affecting economically important US food crops are such that a reasonable level of crop production is maintained.

This cooperative effort maintains a complete list of recovery plans at: http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/npdrs

For NPDRS Workshop summaries and resources, see below.

2015

USDA Office of Pest Management Policy—APS Webinars

May 7, 2015
Overview of Zebra Chip Research in the U.S.

May 19, 2015

Threat of Cowpea mild mottle virus —what we know and don’t know about this exotic virus

  

The National Plant Disease Recovery System (NPDRS) Meeting Summary

August 2, 2015 (Sunday, 8-10pm)

Pasadena Convention Center Rm 101

I.                   Introductions

II.                 Dr. J. Fajardo provided statistics on the two webinars that were conducted on May 7, 2015 on the ‘Overview of Zebra Chip Research in the U.S.’ by Dr. Charlie Rush of Texas A&M AgriLife Research and on May 19, 2015 on the ‘Threat of Cowpea Mild Mottle Virus – What We Know and Don’t Know About this Exotic Virus’ by Dr. Judith Brown of the University of Arizona. 

The two webinars were hosted by USDA-Office of Pest Management Policy and APS as an education and extension effort to reach out to NPDRS stakeholders (local, state and federal plant health officials; scientists, policy-makers, commodity and industry groups) in sharing disease recovery plans. 

Based on the data provided by APS, about 21% of the registrants were international and 79% were based in the US.  About 40% of the registrants belonged to the state organizations or university sector; about 40% from the industry sector composed of registrants, producers, agricultural suppliers, commodity, and agribusiness groups; and about 20% came from the federal and government sector.

 As of July 26, 2015, Dr. J. Fajardo provided statistics on the number of people who listened in from the post-recording of the two webinars conducted.  There were 226 who viewed the webcast for the Zebra Chip of Potatoes and 164 views for the Cowpea Mild Mottle Mosaic Virus.

The two webinars were archived in the webcasts of the Plant Management Network Education Center and the topical meetings and workshops of NPDRS at the APSnet website.

III.                An Ad Hoc Committee on NPDRS Generic Recovery Plan Project comprised of Drs. N. McRoberts (UC Davis), C. Thomas (UC Davis), J. Stack (K-State), J. Brown (UArizona), R. Martyn (Purdue), and F. Nutter (Iowa State) demonstrated that selected criteria can be used to cluster or match known pathogens in a set of existing disease recovery plans and found that there was a good inter-rater agreement on the generic properties of the first 14 completed disease recovery plans.  The results obtained by the Ad Hoc Committee indicated that the set of clustering criteria will guide scientists or lead authors in writing new recovery plans based on those generic properties with significant robustness of clustering criteria for both intra- and inter-rater agreement.

The research work of the Ad Hoc Committee will be submitted for publication to the Plant Disease journal as a feature article and is currently under revision.  A research paper or special report will also be submitted in the Fall of 2015 per recommendation of the reviewers with the details on the analysis and results.

Drs. McRoberts and Thomas proposed a Phase III Project to complete the cluster analysis by obtaining a ‘Gold Standard’ scoring for existing newly developed recovery plans including the proposed recovery plan for diseases caused by phytoplasmas. 

IV.                Dr. M. Hughes of the University of Florida gave an update on the online publication of the ‘Recovery Plan for Laurel Wilt on Redbay and Other Forest Species Caused by Raffaelea lauricola and Disseminated by Xyleborus glabratus’.  This will be the first recovery plan to be published sometime in the Fall of 2015 at Plant Health Progress of APS, a peer-reviewed journal of applied plant health.

V.                  New recovery plans will be developed for FY2016 and based on the Emerging Diseases and Pathogens Committee Meeting on August 2, 2015 (8:30-10am), the Cucumber Green Mottle Mosaic Virus, Plantago Asiatica Mosaic Virus in lilies and solanaceous crops, and wheat flag smut were mentioned.  Dr. N. Harrison of the University of Florida will take the lead to develop a recovery plan for phytoplasma involving six diseases – apple proliferation, European stone fruit yellows, flavescence doree, pine witches’ broom, palm lethal yellowing, and Australian grapevine yellows.

VI.                A discussion on the Guidelines for Updating Recovery Plans was initiated by Drs. D. Fravel and J. Fajardo.  A suggestion was raised by Dr. R. Bulluck of USDA-APHIS on the existence of a preamble before the Executive Summary of a recovery plan.

VII.              Adjournment

2014

Meeting Minutes, August 10, 2014

The National Plant Disease Recovery System (NPDRS) Meeting Summary

August 10, 2014 (Sunday), 8-9:30 pm

Hilton Hotel, Marquette V

 I. Introductions

 II. A proposal for sponsoring webinars in cooperation with APS on the newly developed recovery plans in 2014-15 was presented by Julius Fajardo (USDA-OPMP).  The proposed webinars will be planned to be conducted in the first or second quarter of 2015 as an awareness and educational effort not only to the scientific community but also to policy makers, consultants, growers, and commodity groups.

 III. Jim Stack (Kansas State University) recommended that few of the recovery plans that are currently impacting US agriculture, natural resources and trade should be reached out to stakeholders through publication at the Plant Health Progress of APS or any peer-reviewed journals like Plant Disease.  This recommendation will be taken into consideration and should encourage lead authors in the academic community to incentivize their time and efforts.

 IV. Deb Fravel (USDA-ARS) suggested that a mechanism to fill in the research gaps in the recovery plan per GAO audit should be put in place.  Lead authors and contributors in the recovery plan should provide inputs in identifying what research activities had been conducted, are being conducted and will be conducted to compare with those of USDA-ARS research studies.

 V. Updates on the newly developed recovery plans including the matrix model project were formally presented with slides by the following:

            A.   Matrix Model: Generic Recovery Plans

                        1.  Carla Thomas, University of California-Davis

                        2.  Neil McRoberts, University of California-Davis

            B.  New Recovery Plans

                        1.   Cowpea mild mottle virus (Judy Brown, University of Arizona)

                        2.   Citrus black spot (Megan Dewdney, University of Florida)

                        3.   Potato zebra chip (Charlie Rush, Texas A&M University)

 VI. Updates on old and completed recovery plans were provided by:

                        1.  Laurel wilt of redbay (Jason Smith, University of Florida)

                        2.  Plum plox virus (Marc Fuchs, Cornell University)

                        3.  Ug99 stem rust of wheat (Erick De Wolf, Kansas State University)

 

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2013

Meeting Agenda, April 15-16, 2013, Falls Church, VA

2011

Summary/Minutes, March 6-8, 2011,  Dallas, TX

Attachments

2008

Summary/Minutes, October 27-28, 2008, San Antonio, Texas

2007

Summary, April 22-24, 2007, St. Louis, MO

Attachments

2006 

Summary, April 13-14, 2006 Memphis, TN

Recovery Plans

• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2
• Appendix 3
• Appendix 4
• Appendix 5
• Appendix 5.1
• Appendix 5.2
• Appendix 6
• Appendix 7
• Appendix 8