Weed Risk Assessment Studies, USDA/APHIS/PPQ, Raleigh, NC

Angela Vincent Jurick was a co-operator on a project with the USDA APHIS PPQ CPHST directed by Dan Fieselmann, that included an introduction and preliminary training on pest risk assessment and pathway analysis at the Center for Plant Health Science and Technology (CPHST) in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is writing an organism-based mini Pest Risk Assessment on two pest weeds, Striga gesnerioides and Striga asiatica. These noxious weeds are of importance to both Florida and the Carolinas, respectively. These organisms are quarantined pests because they pose significant threats to agriculture in the areas in which they are found. These parasitic weeds have been shown to decimate crops and severely reduce yields by directly robbing the host plant of both moisture and nutrients.

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