A sniffer dog has been successfully trained to detect a tree disease as part of a “groundbreaking” project to protect the UK’s woodlands. Experts taught Ivor, a six-year-old cocker spaniel Labrador ...

On just its hind legs, Ivor, a 6-year-old mixed cocker spaniel and Labrador dog, diligently sniffs at large piles of split firewood, looking for one thing: Phytophthora ramorum. Originating from the ...

Phytophthora ramorum is a damaging invasive plant pathogen and was first discovered in the UK in 2002. Spatial point analyses were applied to the occurrence of this disease in England and Wales during ...

Shortly before 2000, California oaks began dying. The University of California launched an investigation. What was causing this plague, and how might California oaks be kept healthy? A water-borne ...

Defra, the Forestry Commission and the Welsh Assembly Government today (15 July) launched a joint consultation on the future management of Phytophthora ramorum and Phytophthora kernoviae. Phytophthora ...

An outbreak of the disease caused by Phytophthora ramorum has been confirmed in larch trees at Castlewellan Forest Park. The Forest Service said the area of trees affected is approximately 100 ...

North Carolina State University researchers continue to push the field of plant disease diagnosis forward, developing ...

Funding will help to tackle the spread of the killer tree disease in Galloway Funding of £1m is being provided to help fight the spread of a disease which is killing larch trees in south west Scotland ...