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UK Risk Register Details for Dothistroma pini

This record was last updated on 08/12/2022

Common Names

  • North American red-band needle blight

Scenario and Pathways

Scenario for Risk Register

  • show / hide
  • Pest is introduced

Pathway Assessed for Entry to UK

  • show / hide
  • Plants for planting (except seeds bulbs and tubers)

Common Pathways

  • show / hide
  • Plants for planting (except seeds bulbs and tubers)
  • Cut flowers or branches

Risk Ratings and Current Mitigations

Unmitigated Risks

Likelihood [1 - 5] 3
Spread [1 - 5] 3
Impact [1 - 5] 3
Value at Risk [1 - 5] 5
Likelihood x Impact [1 - 25] 9
UK Relative Risk Rating [1 - 125] 45

Current Mitigations

  • show / hide

Key mitigation for pest

Regulated quarantine pest (Great Britain). Regulated non quarantine pest (Northern Ireland).

Regulation

Surveillance

Industry Scheme

Contingency Plan

Awareness

Research

Mitigated Risks

Likelihood [1 - 5] 2
Spread [1 - 5] 3
Impact [1 - 5] 3
Value at Risk [1 - 5] 5
Likelihood x Impact [1 - 25] 6
UK Relative Risk Rating [1 - 125] 30

Proposed Actions

Proposed Actions

Regulation

Deregulation

Management By Industry

Targeted Survey

PRA

Contingency Plan

Publicity

Research

Distribution and Pest Details

Distribution

Country / Territory Status Notes
Europe
United Kingdom Absent
Hungary Present
Russia Present
Slovenia Present
Switzerland Present
France Present
North America
United States Present

Type of Pest

  • Fungus

Host or Industry at Risk

  • show / hide

Pinus

Major Hosts

  • Pinus L.
  • Pinus albicaulis Engelm.
  • Pinus cembra L.
  • Pinus flexilis James
  • Pinus mugo ssp. mugo Turra
  • Pinus nigra Arnold
  • Pinus nigra ssp. pallasiana Arn.
  • Pinus ponderosa Dougl. Ex P. & C.Laws.
  • Pinus radiata D.Don

Threats to Protected Cultivation

Forest Tree Pests and Pathogens

  • Coniferous

Further Information

PRA Availability

EFSA (2013)

Regulation and EPPO listing

  • show / hide

Regulated quarantine pest (Great Britain). Regulated non quarantine pest (Northern Ireland).

Actions Indicated

  • show / hide

Action

Statutory action in Great Britain. Statutory action on specified hosts in Northern Ireland.

General Comments

Fungal pest of pine, causing damage in France and outside Europe, some uncertainty about distribution and damage.

Risk Records for this Pest