Biosecurity Australasian Plant Pathology Society Conference 2025

Spotlight Speaker
Dr Matthews Paret 

• Integration of new diagnostic approaches with current approaches: Sensing, field diagnostics, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and beyond.  - Mathews Paret
• Using detection dogs to sniff out the plant pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi - Shanika Harshani
• The potential of remote sensing tools to detect early physiological decline and recovery of kauri (Agathis australis) infected with Phytophthora agathidicida and treated with phosphite - Matthew Arnet
• Molecular Approaches for Detecting Crown Gall Pathogens in Soil and Rapid Bioassays to Establish Pathogenicity in Grapevines - Regina B. Baaijens
• Validation of a novel qPCR assay for detection of phytoplasmas in banana and coconut - Mignon de Jager
• PHYTOGUARD™ a cost effective biosecurity solution for phytophthora detection - Sarah M Dunstan