Volume 53 Number 1 Article 10
Year 1999 Month 1
Title: The Pome Fruit Tree Quarantine Program of the Plant Germplasm Quarantine - Office Fruit Laboratory, USDA
Author: S.S. Hurtt
Abstract:
Introduction of healthy, foreign germplasm is vital to promoting a healthy fruit tree industry in
North America.
Importation of foreign germplasm into the United States is controlled by federal regulations.
Quarantine programs are necessary to import prohibited species, e.g. Malus, Pyrus, and Cydonia
spp., without simultaneously importing exotic pests.
Topics included in this paper are: (1) federal regulations that control importation of pome fruit germplasm; (2) operations at the Plant
Germplasm Quarantine Office (PGQO), including quantities and health of pome tree fruit germplasm
imported through the program; and (3) changes in the quarantine and indexing protocol for pome fruit
trees under consideration by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).
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