1C354 Category 1C
Plant pathogens, as follows (see List of Items Controlled).
Category 1: Special Materials and Related Equipment, Chemicals, “Microorganisms,” and “Toxins”
Reasons for control
- CB: Chemical and biological weapons
- AT: Anti-terrorism
Country chart
List-based license exceptions
Items
- a. Bacteria, as follows:
- a.1. Xanthomonas albilineans;
- a.2. Xanthomonas citri pv. citri (Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri, Xanthomonas campestris pv. citri);
- a.3. Xanthomonas oryzae [this species of proteobacteria is identified on the APHIS “select agents” list (see Related Controls paragraph for this ECCN), but only the pathovar Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (syn. Pseudomonas campestris pv. oryzae) is identified on the Australia Group (AG) “List of Plant Pathogens for Export Control”];
- a.4. Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus (Clavibacter sepedonicus, Clavibacter michiganense subsp. sepedonicus, Corynebacterium michiganensis subsp. sepedonicum, Corynebacterium sepedonicum);
- a.5. Ralstonia solanacearum, race 3, biovar 2;
- a.6. Raythayibactor toxicus [this bacterium is identified on the APHIS “select agents” list (see the Related Controls paragraph for this ECCN), but is not identified on the Australia Group (AG) “List of Plant Pathogens for Export Control”].
- b. Fungi, as follows:
- b.1. Bipolaris oryzae (Cochliobolus miyabeanus, Helminthosporium oryzae);
- b.2. Colletotrichum kahawae (Colletotrichum coffeanum var. virulans);
- b.3. Pseudocercospora ulei (Microcyclus ulei, Dothidella ulei);
- b.4. Puccinnia graminis ssp. graminis var. graminis/Puccinia graminis ssp. graminis var. stakmanii (Puccinia graminis [syn. Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici]);
- b.5. Puccinia striiformis (syn. Puccinia glumarum);
- b.6. Magnaporthe oryzae (Pyricularia oryzae);
- b.7. Peronosclerospora philippinensis (Peronosclerospora sacchari);
- b.8. Sclerophthora rayssiae var. zeae;
- b.9. Synchytrium endobioticum;
- b.10. Tilletia indica;
- b.11. Thecaphora solani;
- b.12. Phoma glycinicola (formerly Pyrenochaeta glycines) [this fungus is identified on the APHIS “select agents” list (see the Related Controls paragraph for this ECCN), but is not identified on the Australia Group (AG) “List of Plant Pathogens for Export Control”].
- c. Viruses, as follows:
- c.1. Andean potato latent virus (Potato Andean latent tymovirus);
- c.2. Potato spindle tuber viroid.
Related controls
(1) The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), U.S. Department of Agriculture, maintains controls on the possession, use, and transfer within the United States of certain items controlled by this ECCN (see 7 CFR 331.3(c), 9 CFR 121.3(c), and 9 CFR 121.4(c)). (2) See 22 CFR part 121, Category XIV(b), for modified biological agents and biologically derived substances that are subject to the export licensing jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.
Notes
License Requirements Notes: 1. All vaccines are excluded from the scope of this ECCN. See ECCN 1C991 for vaccines. 2. Unless specified elsewhere in this ECCN 1C354 (e.g., in License Requirement Note 1), this ECCN controls all biological agents, regardless of quantity or attenuation, that are identified in the List of Items Controlled for this ECCN, including small quantities or attenuated strains of select biological agents that are excluded from the list of PPQ select agents and “toxins” by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), U.S. Department of Agriculture, in accordance with their regulations in 7 CFR part 331.
Source: eCFR, version
2026-08-01, retrieved
2026-08-20T04:04:59+00:00.