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Weird Mystery Seeds Arriving by Mail Sprout Biodiversity Concerns<\/h2>\n

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Americans from Maine to Texas have recently reported receiving mysterious packages sent from China. Often labeled as jewelry, the parcels instead contain clear plastic bags with unknown seeds of various shapes, sizes and colors. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and state agriculture agencies are urging people not to plant\u2014or even throw away\u2014these organisms. Instead they want recipients to send the seeds to them for investigation.<\/p>\n

Last week an official at the Plant Protection and Quarantine program at the USDA\u2019s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) said that so far the agency has \u201cidentified 14 different species of seeds, including mustard, cabbage, morning glory and some of the herbs\u2014like mint, sage, rosemary, lavender\u2014and other seeds, like hibiscus and roses.\u201d And in a press release APHIS said it does not \u201chave any evidence indicating this is something other than a \u2018brushing scam\u2019 where people receive unsolicited items from a seller who then posts false customer reviews to boost sales.\u201d (For someone to be able to leave a review, an actual shipment has to be registered in a retail system such as Etsy.)<\/p>\n

But Laura Meyerson, an invasion biologist at the University of Rhode Island, says there is still cause for concern. She has been studying invasive plants since she was a graduate student at Yale University, where she was prompted by a professor explaining how phragmites\u2014common reeds\u2014are invading muskrat habitats and destroying the animals\u2019 homes on the Quinnipiac River. At the same time, she became interested in science policy, which eventually led her to serve on the Department of the Interior\u2019s Invasive Species Advisory Committee from 2016 until the committee\u2019s deactivation in 2019. Scientific American<\/em> spoke with Meyerson about why this seed mystery is concerning, the potential dangers of invasive plants and the controls in place to stop them.<\/p>\n

[An edited transcript of the interview follows<\/em>.]<\/p>\n

What are some of the methods the USDA might use to identify the seeds?<\/strong><\/p>\n

They may have done a morphological identification, based on shape and size, et cetera. And then they may be also running some genetic analyses.<\/p>\n

What you would be looking for is a seed of a particular size, a particular weight and particular features\u2014color and shape. It might have different physical features on it that make it typical for a particular species. It might have little spurs on it that help it hang on to animal fur, so it gets transported around. So you\u2019d be looking for all those sorts of physical characteristics that were typical for a species.<\/p>\n

[The genetic analysis is done] kind of like any genetic study. You go in, and you extract the DNA, and you sequence a sample. And then, based on genetic records, you run the sequences that you get against GenBank [a publicly available DNA sequence database] and get a positive identification\u2014or against sequences in your own database.<\/p>\n

The other method, of course, is to grow the seed out\u2014which is exactly what [the USDA is] telling the public not to do. But the USDA may be doing that for a number of reasons\u2014just to see if there\u2019s anything unusual about them. It might want to collect the DNA from the green plant tissue, which can be easier to sequence sometimes.<\/p>\n

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The outside of one of the packages of unsolicited seeds. Credit: USDA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The USDA has so far identified the seeds by their common names. What is the concern with not being more specific?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because different species will behave very differently. You could have two species in the same family\u2014even in the same genus\u2014and one could be invasive and one might not be. That sort of taxonomic specificity is very, very important. For example, in the mustard family, the garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata<\/em>) is very invasive.<\/p>\n

What would happen if people planted any of these seeds?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know, because we don\u2019t know what they are. That means we don\u2019t know if they\u2019ll be harmful or not. Could these be genetically modified seeds? Possibly. Perhaps that\u2019s something we don\u2019t want to release into the environment. Because once you release that, it can spread to other plants if they\u2019re outcrossing [breeding between two plants that are unrelated], and there could be sharing of genetic material, which might be undesirable. If you want to get really paranoid, you could think about some kind of genetically modified seeds that had a gene drive [a genetic engineering technique that guarantees a specific gene will be passed on to offspring] in them to have a particular end.<\/p>\n

Also, when we bring species from one place to another, generally, they don\u2019t come alone. It\u2019s possible when that plant was imported, it brought with it viruses or other pathogens that could be harmful. It\u2019s really a biosecurity issue, whether or not harm is intended. Even if it\u2019s just one of those brushing schemes, as has been suggested, that doesn\u2019t mean that there\u2019s not potential harm.<\/p>\n

Why is the USDA telling people not to throw the seeds away?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Your garbage can theoretically get transported to a dump somewhere. That could end up with those seeds germinating and becoming naturalized\u2014and then becoming invasive. It\u2019s possible somebody could go through your garbage can and find them, take them and plant them. It\u2019s an opportunity for those seeds to be released, and that\u2019s why they\u2019re saying, \u201cDon\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The second thing is the USDA really wants those packets\u2014because they give it an opportunity to have a greater sampling of what\u2019s out there. And they are also evidence. They needs the public to cooperate in that way to help figure out what the heck is going on and to make sure that there\u2019s no harm.<\/p>\n

What is the difference between becoming naturalized and becoming invasive?<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, you\u2019ve got a native species\u2014evolutionarily native to a place. And then you\u2019ve got species that are nonnative. Naturalized species are nonnative species that are introduced and able to self-sustain and even spread. And then invasive species are naturalized species that have high rates of spread and cause harm. The federal definition in the U.S. for invasive species is nonnative plants, animals and pathogens that cause harm to the economy, the environment and human health.<\/p>\n

Tulips were introduced to the U.S. from Holland. They were nonnative species. But tulips aren\u2019t running around and taking over North America. So they\u2019re not invasive; they\u2019re just nonnative.<\/p>\n

Is there any way to eradicate an invasive species once it becomes established?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Often the answer is no, unfortunately. Many, many, many species are introduced into the U.S. We\u2019ve had tens of thousands of plants introduced into this country. Now, not all of them are invasive. But enough of them are that we\u2019re spending $20 billion or $30 billion every year to manage them.<\/p>\n

There are some success stories: we employ biocontrol agents to help minimize invasive species. But really getting rid of something once it\u2019s been introduced is hard unless you\u2019re really on the ball and get to it or are darn lucky.<\/p>\n

How does the biocontrol process on our borders work?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are inspection agents at the airports and seaports. They do the best they can, but the volume of goods coming into this country is just absolutely overwhelming. We don\u2019t have enough inspection agents at the borders to catch all of these things. That said, there is a huge movement toward developing technologies to assist in the detection of invasive species.<\/p>\n

Is there any notable invasive plant species that arrived in the U.S. recently?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Giant hogweed. That plant is so nasty. It\u2019s really invasive. It\u2019s this plant that produces a chemical that burns your skin and can even blind you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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