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Date: October 2011
Source: IPMnet News issue 190 [edited]
<http://www.ipmnet.org/IPMNews/2011/news190.html>
A collaborative effort recently introduced "idsource", a specialized search tool for identifying the global maze of over 1400 vetted websites that focus on identification of plant pest insects, diseases and weeds. The objective is to help users rapidly find trustworthy websites for screening, detecting, and identifying one or more species among the multitude that comprise the plant pest universe.
At the website
<http://idsource.colostate.edu/cwis438/websites/IDSource/Home.php?WebSiteID=11>,
users can access the massive database by alphabetical order, specific class of disease/pest, or key words. An interactive link is listed for each item, along with the originating organization, the site's contents, the nature of the material included (for example, fact sheets, screening aid, images), individualized notes about the site, and any user reviews to date.
This "gateway to disease/pest identification" was the joint work of the United States Department of Agriculture and Colorado State University. The original concept for idsource arose in 2006, and work was 1st launched at Australia's University of Queensland.
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[This is a very useful tool for both plant pathologists and general users. Resources specific to nematodes need to be accessed as a separate list from the other pathogens. For both lists, subsets according to, for example, region, pathogen or crop groups can be selected at <http://idsource.colostate.edu/cwis438/websites/IDSource/IDSource_Aid_List2.php?WebSiteID=11>.
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