A 16-year quest to identify a mite intercepted on Italian kiwis highlights critical challenges in biosecurity systems. By Dane McDonald. Entomologist Dr Davina Saccaggi of Citrus Research International illustrated the challenges of navigating international biosecurity by recounting the story of…
Plant quarantine is an essential link in the plant-production chain and a crucial component of plant improvement. By Kyra-Kay Rensburg. “Importing plant material from other countries provides an opportunity to also import exotic pathogens that can have potentially devastating consequences,…
Certification percentages of grapevines put the pome- and stone-fruit industries to shame. Fresh Quarterly spoke to leading vine nurserymen to learn more. By Anna Mouton. About 82% of the nearly 17 million grapevines produced by nurseries in 2022 were either…
The Netherlands is a small country that packs a powerful horticultural punch —can the South African pome- and stone-fruit industries up their game by studying Dutch plant-improvement practices? By Anna Mouton. Article summary The Dutch plant certification system at a…
Certification of pome- and stone-fruit plant material is at an all-time low. What are the problems, and how do we solve them? A summary of the task-team report. The percentage of certified pome- and stone-fruit trees sold has dropped to…