The Australian Plant Pest Database: A national resource for an expert community

Ian Naumann, Emma Lumb.
Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Canberra

Kerry Taylor, Robert Power, David Ratcliffe, Michael Kearney.
CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra.
Email: Kerry.Taylor@csiro.au

Keywords

virtual database plant pests

Abstract

The Australian Plant Pest Database (APPD) is a Web-based virtual database of vital importance to the Australian agricultural industry. The APPD contains specimen based information on over a million plant pests and diseases that occur in Australia. The existence of the APPD is owed to a major collaboration between Industry, State and Federal Governments, research organisations and universities.  The APPD program is supported and managed by Plant Health Australia and the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF).