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Backcross: Will Ash be the Blueprint for Tree Restoration?
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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Mar 29, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
The number one way you can stop an insect invasion or pathogen from spreading is by stopping it from ever starting. Who says geneticists and ecologists can’t act in the same way—taking action before a tree is ever in danger? With ash, proactive and collaborative breeding is already taking place, and it could be a roadmap for the future of combating tree species restorations. Related Research: Green Ash Trees That Survive Beetle Infestation Pass on Their Resistance Through Propagation and Planting (NRS) The Key to Rescuing Green Ash from Emerald Ash Borer is in the Genes (NRS) “Saving Green Ash” (2017) “Restoring Green Ash: Breeding for Resistance to the Emerald Ash Borer” (2020) “Convergent molecular evolution among ash species resistant to the emerald ash borer” (2020) Saving Oregon Ash (2022) [Oregon Dept. of Forestry] Scientists: Jennifer Koch, Research Biologist, Northern Research Station, Delaware, Ohio Kathleen Knight, Research Ecologist, Northern Research Station, Delaware, Ohio Richard Sniezko, Center Geneticist, Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon Produced by the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station. Want more information? Visit us at www.nrs.fs.fed.us/podcast/2/5/ Any questions? Connect with us on Twitter!
Released:
Mar 29, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (33)
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