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Backcross: Tree Species Restoration & Resistance Breeding
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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Mar 1, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
In season one of Forestcast, entomologists showed us the ways we slow insects from attacking and killing trees. This season, we’ll meet another set of scientists, scientists who have been attacking the issue of non-native invasive insects and pathogens from a different angle. Chemicals and biological control can buy trees time, but they cannot completely control the non-native insects that are attacking trees that have never experienced these insects before. We need something on top of those controls, and these scientists, they’ve been working towards a solution — a long-term resistance. What is it? Well, it’s simple. At least, a simple idea: use trees. Related Research: “Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on the Genetics of Host-Parasite Interactions in Forestry—Tree Resistance to Insects and Diseases: Putting Promise into Practice” (2020) Forest Tree Species Restoration (NRS) Scientists: Jennifer Koch, Research Biologist, Northern Research Station, Delaware, Ohio Kathleen Knight, Research Ecologist, Northern Research Station, Delaware, Ohio Leila Pinchot, Research Ecologist, Northern Research Station, Delaware, Ohio Charlie Flower, Research Ecologist, Northern Research Station, Delaware, Ohio Produced by the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station. Want more information? Visit us at www.nrs.fs.fed.us/podcast/2/1/ Any questions? Connect with us on Twitter!
Released:
Mar 1, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (31)
Balance & Barrier: A Slow Explosion of Damaging Forest Insects: A biological invasion is an enormous increase in population of some kind of living organism. It happens when an organism — like an insect — arrives somewhere beyond its previous range, when it breaks out past its natural barrier, unbalancing the... by Forestcast