Publications

Technical Publications 

Tuffen MG, Wisdom R and Nolan S (2019) Report of a rapid pest risk analysis for Lambdina fiscellaria(Guenée, [1858]) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) for the island of Ireland. EPPO Bulletin (online early).

Tuffen MG and Wisdom R (2019) Honey Locust Podgall Midge (Dasineura gleditchiae) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) new to Ireland. Irish Naturalists’ Journal 36: 149-150

Tuffen MG and Grogan H (2019) Current, emerging and potential pest threats to Sitka spruce plantations and the role of pest risk analysis in preventing new pest introductions to Ireland. Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research 92: 26-41.

Baker RHA, Anderson H, Bishop S, MacLeod A, Parkinson N, Tuffen MG, et al. (2014). The UK Plant Health Risk Register: a tool for prioritizing actions. EPPO Bulletin. 44: 187-194.

Dickinson M, Tuffen MG, and Hodgetts J. (2013) The phytoplasmas: an introduction. In: Phytoplasma: Methods and Protocols. Humana Press.

Tuffen MG. (2010) The use of Xspecies microarray to study changes in gene expression in phytoplasma-infected Catharanthus roseus. Phytopathology. 100: 3340.

Pest Risk Analyses

EPPO. (2018) Pest Risk Analysis for Rose Rosette Virus. After completing a UK PRA on Rose Rosette Virus (RRV), the PRA was then submitted to EPPO for consideraton. This was then used as the basis for the EPPO PRA, for which I was also a member of the Expert Working Group (EWG).

EPPO. (2017) Pest Risk Analysis for ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma phoenicium’ (almond witches’ broom). I was a member of the Expert Working Group for this PRA.

First author of multiple rapid PRAs for the UK on pests of horticulture, agriculture, and forestry. Examples include Ca. Phytoplasma fragariae, Ca. Phytoplasma fraxini (ash yellows phytoplasma), polyphagous shot hole borer,polyphagous shot hole borer, brown spruce longhorn beetle, wheat dwarf virus and Xylosandrus crassiusculus (granulate ambrosia beetle). PRAs are available via the UK Plant Health Risk Register website: https://secure.fera.defra.gov.uk/phiw/riskRegister/index.cfm