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PPB Priorities

Yearly, the APS Public Policy Board (PPB) reviews the current status of its priorities with the APS Council, evaluates comments from the membership, and adjusts its strategy to fit the most relevant needs. Details on the current priorities, which include historic references, are provided here.

Funding Priorities

• Emerging and Re-emerging Plant Diseases
  improving our current system of plant health monitoring and quarantine at national and state borders
  
• National Plant Diagnostic Network
  a critical resource enhancing national biosecurity against plant pests and pathogens
  

Previous Priorities (Archive)​

• Phytobiomes
• Agricultural Research Funding
• Culture Collections
• Food Safety
• Extension
• Education
• Plant-Associated Microbial Genomics
• National Plant Diagnotic Network (NPDN)
• Industry Issues/EPA
• Permitting & Regulatory/APHIS
• Biosecurity