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Plant Pathology
Fire may help combat fatal dogwood epidemic
August 25th, 2003
There may be hope for that embattled Southern icon, the dogwood tree, say University of Florida researchers. Most dogwoods in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park have died in recent years, the victims of an epidemic devastating dogwoods up and down the East Coast. So Mike Jenkins, a park ecologist, was surprised to discover in a recent survey of parklands that dogwoods in a few spots had not only survived the fungal disease, but flourished. The common thread: the three plots, part of land set aside for research, had all been part of an area burned in a forest fire more than two decades ago. In a follow-up study, Jenkins and Shibu Jose, an...
Source: Life Science Weekly (2003-08-25)
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