With spring in the air, today was a good day for a grafting workshop. Forest pathology students used grafting techniques at the SFRC Plant Growth Complex, with quaking aspen rootstock and scions collected in Texas.
With spring in the air, today was a good day for a grafting workshop. Forest pathology students used grafting techniques at the SFRC Plant Growth Complex, with quaking aspen rootstock and scions collected in Texas.
Here is a short version story with an interview I did last week on NPR regarding laurel wilt in the Everglades.
– Jason
Our work with Florida torreya continues, but many questions remain.
Here is a nice article and editorial written by the Seminole chairman, Jim Billie in the Seminole Tribune about laurel wilt. Our research efforts are mentioned in the article.
http://www.semtribe.com/SeminoleTribune/Archive/2014/SeminoleTribune_February%2028_2014v2.pdf
Our lab has been working on Diplodia cankers of oak caused by D. corticola and D. quercivora. Here is a new paper on the role of D. corticola in decline of Holm oak (Quercus ilex) in Europe.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/efp.12081/
Check out this story..
Photo credits: T.A.Mousseau & A.P. Møller for Smithsonian.com
Jason