About Widely Prevalent Fungi of the United States
The database is periodically updated by regional coordinators around the country. In addition to providing information for plant pathologists and diagnosticians, the list will be used by APHIS-PPQ and State Plant Regulatory Officials to develop a list of fungal plant pathogens that are common in each state to help expedite the permitting process for obtaining research isolates. The APHIS-PPQ list will be available on the APHIS website.
A "Widely Prevalent" organism is an organism that:
- is widely distributed in any given five year period in the State where the host plant(s) is grown. It does not have to be encountered every year at every location
- would raise no new regulatory concerns at the State or Federal level if it was identified
Regional Coordinators
- David Appel, Texas A & M University - TX, LA, MS, AL
- Fred Brooks, University of Hawaii at Manoa - HI, GU, AS, MP
- Lori Carris, Washington State University - AK, ID, OR, WA
- Tom Creswell, Purdue University - IA, IL, IN, OH
- Wade Elmer, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station - VT, CT, NH, MA, ME, RI
- Carrie Lapaire Harmon, Southern Plant Diagnostic Network
- Elizabeth Long, University of Tennessee - AR, TN, KY, VA
- Judy O'Mara, Kansas State University - CO, KS, NE, OK
- Barry Pryor, University of Arizona - AZ, NM, CA, NV, UT
- Mafuz Rahman, West Virginia University - WV
- Karen Snover-Clift, Cornell University - NY, PA, NJ, DC, DE, MD, WV
- Carol Stiles, Widely Prevalent Fungi List
- Shaobin Zhong, North Dakota State University - MT, ND, SD, WY