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- Smith, Melissa
- Crop Protection & Quarantine (304)

Research Project: **Location:
                            Invasive Plant Research Laboratory** Project Number: 6032-22000-013-134-I
                        
                        Project Type: Interagency Reimbursable Agreement Start Date: May 17, 2024
                        
                        End Date: Sep 30, 2024 **Objective:**
                        
                        Invasive aquatic weeds impact North America's waterways, affecting navigation,
aquaculture, fishing, and other ecosystem goods and services. These funds will
support research into finding and testing sustainable biological control for such
targets as Nymphoides cristata, Nymphoides peltata, Azolla pinnata, Ludwigia spp.
and others.
-Conduct foreign surveys in Korea, Japan, Phillipines and Australia to look for
suitable agents for North American aquatic invasive weeds.
-Where appropriate, ship insects to US-based quarantine facility or import into
Australian Biological Control Laboratory facilities for preliminary host range
testing.
-Summarize results of initial screens for host affinity and report those. **Approach:**
                        
                        ARS will facilitate the surveys, imports and host range testing of potential agents for emerging aquatic weeds.


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