News tagged with rhododendron
Nature's gift for gardening may hold key to biodiversity
Gardeners are used to cross-breeding flowers to produce pretty petals or sweet scents - now scientists have shown the importance of nature's talent for producing new types of flowers.
Sep 13, 2010 |
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Rhododendron expansion may increase the chance of landslides on Southern Appalachian slopes
Research by U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists and partners suggests that the expansion of rosebay rhododendron (Rhododendron maximum) in Southern Appalachian mountain hollows may in ...
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Diagnostic labs analyze from bugs to toenails
Found an odd bug in your closet? Rhododendrons inexplicably wilting? Need a toenail analyzed? There's a lab for that.
May 25, 2012 |
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Catching vine weevils with odors
Catching the vine weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus) is now possible with the identification of odours these weevils find attractive. Scientists of Plant Research International, part of Wageningen UR, discovered ...
Apr 20, 2012 |
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New website shares information about deadly tree pathogens
Sudden oak death, Port-Orford-cedar root disease and other deadly tree diseases caused by Phytophthora species (pronounced fy-TOF-ther-uhs) are threatening forest ecosystems worldwide. These microorganisms, which are relate ...
Feb 02, 2012 |
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Native thugs as bad for woodlands as foreign invaders
Some of Britain's most recognisable plants – like brambles, bracken and ivy – can damage British woodlands just as much as marauding invasive plants, according to new research.
May 20, 2011 |
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Comprehensive report on sudden oak death
Synthesizing more than 10 years of cooperative research on the exotic invasive, quarantine sudden oak death pathogen, the USDA Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW) recently published "Sudden Oak Death ...
Dec 27, 2010 |
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Advance toward controlling fungus that caused Irish potato famine
Scientists are reporting a key advance toward development of a way to combat the terrible plant diseases that caused the Irish potato famine and still inflict billions of dollars of damage to crops each year around the world. ...
Nov 17, 2010 |
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Citizens pitch in to help scientists track spead of sudden oak death
A map plotting the path of destruction that the tree-strangling pathogen known as sudden oak death is taking through the Bay Area shows new infestations in and around neighborhoods throughout the region.
Oct 05, 2010 |
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Plants discover the benefits of good neighbors in strategy against herbivores
Scandinavian Scientists have discovered that a species of tree defends itself from herbivore attack by using chemicals emitted by neighbouring plants. The study, published today in New Phytologist, reveals how a species of bir ...
Mar 09, 2010 |
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Queen's marine biologist investigates aliens beneath the waves
Queen's University Belfast is appealing for help from the public in looking at ways to detect and stop the spread of marine aliens.
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Jun 16, 2008 |
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Risk to trees from 'sudden oak death' disease tackled by researchers
A deadly disease that kills trees by creating cankers which girdle the trunk and clog up their water- carrying 'veins', is being targeted by a major research project underway at Imperial College London.
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Apr 29, 2008 |
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