June
2014
, Volume
98
, Number
6
Pages
708
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715
Authors
James P. Stack, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan;
Richard M. Bostock, Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis;
Raymond Hammerschmidt, Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing;
Jeffrey B. Jones, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville; and
Eileen Luke, Center for Environmental and Regulatory Information Systems, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
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The National Plant Diagnostic Network (NPDN) has developed
into a critical component of the plant biosecurity infrastructure of the United
States. The vision set forth in 2002 for a distributed but coordinated system of
plant diagnostic laboratories at land grant universities and state departments
of agriculture has been realized. NPDN, in concept and in practice, has become a
model for cooperation among the public and private entities necessary to protect
our natural and agricultural plant resources. Aggregated into five regional
networks, NPDN laboratories upload diagnostic data records into a National Data
Repository at Purdue University. By facilitating early detection and providing
triage and surge support during plant disease outbreaks and arthropod pest
infestations, NPDN has become an important partner among federal, state, and
local plant protection agencies and with the industries that support plant
protection.
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