ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Improving the Safety and Effectiveness of Biological Control Agents of Weeds in the USA

Wednesday, November 14, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
200 D, Floor Two (Knoxville Convention Center)
Organizers:
Lincoln Smith
James P. Cuda


1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:35 PM
1691
How safe are the agents that have been released?
Gregory J. Wiggins, University of Tennessee
1:50 PM
1692
How does nontarget damage in the field compare to host specificity data?
Hariet L. Hinz, Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI)
2:05 PM
1693
Indirect nontarget effects and how to avoid them
Dean E. Pearson, USDA, Forest Service
2:20 PM
1694
Evaluating the potential threat of a weed biocontrol agent Diorhabda spp. to an endangered bird, the southwestern willow flycatcher
Dan Bean, Colorado Department of Agriculture ; Tom Dudley, University of California
2:35 PM
1695
The why and how of weighing evolutionary potential of candidate control organisms prior to release
Peter McEvoy, Oregon State University
2:50 PM
1696
Criteria that the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) uses to evaluate weed biological control agents
Alfred F. CoFrancesco, United States Army, Corps of Engineers
3:05 PM
1697
APHIS-PPQ permitting criteria and compliance with NEPA and ESA regulations
Shirley A. Wager-Page, USDA, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
3:20 PM
Break
3:35 PM
1698
Recent cases of agents that have been rejected and why
Lincoln Smith, USDA, Agricultural Research Service
3:50 PM
1699
Field testing of host plant specificity overseas
Urs Schaffner, Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI)
4:05 PM
1700
"Reversible" field testing of host plant specificity in the USA
James P. Cuda, University of Florida
4:20 PM
1701
Possible application of transgenics and sterile insect technique to evaluation of weed biological control agents
Daniel A. Strickman, USDA, Agricultural Research Service
4:35 PM
1702
The Australian regulatory process
William A. Palmer, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
4:50 PM
1703
Contrasts between the New Zealand and US regulatory systems for new control agents
Richard Hill, Richard Hill and Associates
5:05 PM
Panel Discussion
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