Aerial Dispersal of Soybean
Rust Spores: An Aerobiological Model to Forecast the Spread of Phakopsora
pachyrhizi at Global, Continental, and Regional Scales |
| This is a USDA-CSREES project funding under the Integrated 230.1 Animal and Plant Biosecurity section with Scott Isard, Joe Russo (ZedX Inc., Glen Hartman (ARS-NSRL), and Monte Miles (ARS-NSRL) as PIs. |
| The goal of the work is to develop and operate a Soybean
Rust Aerobiology Modeling System (SRAMS) to forecast aerial transport
of P. pachyrhizi. The research has identified the critical
gaps in our knowledge of P. pachyrhizi transport and the
components and their relationships that have been included in SRAMS.
Daily forecasts displaying the risk of
P. pachyrhizi dispersing to U.S. soybean fields are currently
being delivered to growers and government agencies in conjunction
with the U.S. Soybean Rust Information System, a project funded by
APHIS (see companion materials). Most of the emphasis of the on-going work are being devoted to conducting the two experiments to better understand: 1) environmental conditions associated with release of P. pachyrhizi urediniospores and their escape from the soybean canopy into the atmosphere and 2) spore viability after exposure to natural sunlight. The team received funding to work on this project between July 2004 and June 2007. Visiting Scholar Annalisa Ariatti (CEAL) is supported on this grant as well as the field work associated with Nick Dufault's Ph.D. dissertation and Jeremy Zidek's MS thesis, both CEAL graduate students. |
| For more information on the project visit the Aerobiological Risk Analysis for Soybean Rust |