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Implementing Australia’s
National Plant Biosecurity
Diagnostic Strategy
Barbara Hall
Subcommittee on Plant Health Diagnostics,
Chair
Outline
• Strategies for Australia’s
biosecurity system
• Diagnostics in Australia
• SPHD
Where does diagnostic policy fit?
Plant biosecurity – 2020
www.planthealthaustralia.com.au/npbs
NPBS – Sub-strategies
1: Legislation 6: Established pests
2: Surveillance 7: Education and awareness
3: Emergency response 8: Research
4: Training 9: Communication
5: Diagnostics 10: Monitoring the system
NPBDS
http://plantbiosecuritydiagnostics.net.au/resource-hub/documents/national-plant-biosecurity-diagnostic-strategy/
Tools and standards Infrastructure
Support systems People
Diagnostics in Australia
Commonwealth: Border
State/territory governments: Post-border
Australian post-border system
• Focused on endemics – crop management
• National biosecurity overlay on existing
diagnostics system
• Delivered through a distributed network of
laboratories
• Identification of threats – HPPs, NPPPs
Identifying threats
• HPP – high priority pests identified by industry in
Biosecurity Plans
• NPPP – National priority plant pests – identified
by DAWR as the “top 40” pests we don’t want
Differing priorities
NPPPs HPPs
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Subcommittee on Plant Health
Diagnostics
“The Subcommittee on Plant Health Diagnostics
(SPHD) aims to sustain and improve the quality
and reliability of plant pest diagnostics in Australia”
A brief historySPHDS formed
Reference standards drafted
First National Diagnostic Protocol
endorsed
National Plant Biosecurity Strategy
published
National Plant Biosecurity Diagnostic
Strategy published
National Plant Biosecurity Diagnostic
Network formed
NPBDN website launched
Inaugural Annual Diagnosticians’
Workshop
National Reference Collection
Strategy
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
ISO/IEC 17925 annex (no. 3.8) to the
Biological Testing FAD
Protocols, proficiency testing,
training, PD, residentials, etc etc
SPHD
• Delivers outcomes based on NPBDS actions
• Working groups with advisors
• Advises PHC on diagnostic issues
• Builds base capacity, but focuses on exotics
NPBDS
Action D1.1: Key roles and responsibilities agreed amongst agencies
on a nationally coordinated basis
Action D1.2: Develop a process to encourage new diagnosticians to
enter the field and enable continued professional
development of current diagnosticians
Action D1.3: Identify network elements and their coordination
Recommendation D1: Develop a nationally integrated
plant biosecurity diagnostic network that underpins
Australia’s plant biosecurity system
National Plant Biosecurity
Diagnostic Network
• Improving communication and linkages between
diagnosticians
• Diagnostic capability and capacity
– Directed professional development opportunities
– Proficiency testing program
– National forum
• Addressing national diagnostic issues
NPBDN and diagnostic stakeholders
Commonwealth
Government
State/territory
governments
International
agenciesUniversities
Private
laboratories
Biosecurity
organisations
RDCsPlant production
industriesMuseums
Industry support
services
Industry supply
chain
International
research
NPBDN initiatives
Residential program Training workshops
Diagnosticians’
workshops
Annual Diagnosticians’ Workshops
• National meeting for the NPBDN
• Networking opportunity for practicing plant
biosecurity diagnosticians
• Linked to basic training workshops
– 2014: Bioinformatics
– 2015: Aphid-virus interactions
– 2016: Reference collections
– 2017: Slide mounting
ADW2015
ADW2016
ADW2017
Network website
www.plantbiosecuritydiagnostics.net.au
International diagnostic linkages
• International Plant Protection Convention
• Asia and Pacific Plant Protection Convention
• QUADS
– (US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia)
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations
• New Zealand
NPBDS
Action D2.1: All diagnostic laboratories in the network have the
ability to deliver diagnostic testing to acceptable quality
standards
Action D2.2: Governments to take responsibility for
establishment and ongoing costs of maintaining
appropriate quality management systems for diagnostic
laboratories
Recommendation D2: Implement and maintain
appropriate quality management systems in
diagnostic laboratories
• 2009: Development of A Field of
Application Document (FAD) for
ISO/IEC 17025 Accreditation for plant
health diagnostic laboratories in
Australia
• Annex 3.8 of the Biological Testing FAD
• Annual proficiency testing service
Accreditation
NPBDS
Action D3.1: Regularly prioritise diagnostic protocols for development and
review using a contemporary risk based approach
Action D3.2: Develop a national policy to facilitate access to reference
material and positive controls for diagnostic tests by ensuring
appropriate processes and containment protocols are in place
for their importation, storage and handling
Action D3.3: Regularly review current and future needs of the diagnostic
system in terms of human resources, skills and infrastructure,
and implement proactive approaches to ensure these are met
Recommendation D3: Diagnostic capability and
capability for all HPPs be developed and maintained
Building on standards
National Diagnostic Protocols
• Definitive taxonomic identification of
pests
• Nationally agreed for use in
emergency responses
• Supported by four reference
standards
• Inclusion of diagnostics for
surveillance
Tools and standardsBrown rot Rice blast
American serpentine leaf
minor
Plum pox virus Potato mop top virus Russian wheat aphid
Avocado thrips Potato wart Grapevine leaf rust
Poinsettia thrips Peach X disease Lentil rust
Sudden oak death Zebra chip Pine gall rust
Pierces disease Karnal bunt Pyriform scale
Potato spindle tuber
viroidPotato/tomato psyllid Pulvinaria scale
Bacterial ring rot of potato European canker Grape root rot
Citrus canker Colorado potato beetle Chickpea wilt
BlacklineGlassy-winged
sharpshooterDutch Elm Disease
Chestnut blight Red turpentine beetle Barley Stripe rust
European stone fruit
yellows
Huanglongbing (asiatic
strain)
Black rot Mal Secco
0 20 40
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
NDPs
Diagnostic resources for NPPPs
• Conducted by CSIRO (2016-2017)
• For National Priority Plant Pests (NPPP):
– Protocols (NDPs, IPPC, keys, etc.)
– Molecular protocols
– Images
– Specimen collections (including DNA & RNA)
– Human capability (specialist & generalist)
Diagnostic resources for NPPPs
Diagnostic resources for
surveillance
• Appendix to the NDP “Section 9”
• Focusses on diagnostics to support surveillance
– High throughput
– Known test capacity
– Triage tools for surveillance teams
Surge capacity
• What is the capacity within Australia to increase
diagnostic capability to meet demand?
– Recognition of bottlenecks
– Improved networking
– Movement between states
Reference collections
• Development of a reference collections strategy
– Recognition of vital role
– How to maintain and improve current collections
– Connections between collections
– Drive specimen vouchering
– Provide access for trade and biosecurity needs
New technologies
• A developing challenge:
– Managing new technologies for the delivery of
diagnostics in a regulatory setting
NPBDS
Action D4.1: Regularly review plant biosecurity information management
systems that support diagnostics to ensure they meet the needs
of the network and implement mechanisms to address gaps
Action D4.2: Develop, implement and maintain standardised information systems
nationally, both within government and industry, for the collection,
analysis and retrieval of surveillance data, diagnostic information and
research outcomes
Action D4.3: Develop a system that enables the sharing of diagnostic data
nationally and complete a stocktake of existing data management
systems in plant biosecurity laboratories
Recommendation D4: Establish a national plant
biosecurity information management framework to
optimise data sharing
Data sharing
• Watch this space………
Acknowledgements