[MAIPC] Exciting Update on Biocontrol for Ailanthus

Wed Dec 26 08:14:11 PST 2018

Does anyone know what species of Verticillium she's testing with? Penn State researchers were testing V. albo-atrum back in 2010. https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/gtr/gtr-nrs-p-75papers/07davis-p-75.pdf

Jan Steiner

> On December 24, 2018 at 11:59 PM Marc Imlay <ialm at erols.com> wrote:
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>     RAPHINE — The kudzu of the tree world could one day be controlled by a fungus.
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>     Virginia Tech graduate student Rachel Brooks is testing how the fungus verticillium attacks tree of heaven, an invasive species for which Brooks used the kudzu reference. The hope: that the fungus will help kill the tree, which grows just about everywhere.
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>     Tree of heaven is a plant from China that creates problems across Virginia and the country. The tree spreads and grows rapidly, growing as much as five to ten feet a year. It often chokes out native plants, blocks drivers’ views on roadways and grows in agricultural or urban areas. There is also some evidence that the tree is a preferred breeding spot for the invasive spotted lanternfly https://www.roanoke.com/news/education/higher_education/virginia_tech/virginia-tech-beginning-fight-against-invasive-spotted-lanternfly-seen-in/article_de38a5cf-ba26-5715-b3b6-71b3c89ca25e.html , which could wreak havoc on Virginia crops.
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>     The plant is prevalent at the Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Research and Extension Center, where Brooks is studying it along with several other sites across the state.
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>     She’s inoculated a few of the trees with verticillium fungus. In a little more than a year, the fungus has killed the trees that were exposed. It’s also spread the fungus through the interwoven tree of heaven root systems to kill off many of the trees in the area.
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>     Brooks keeps coming back to measure the fungal effects.
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>     “The end goal is a product that you can buy in the store,” Brooks said.
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>     https://www.roanoke.com/news/education/higher_education/virginia-tech-researchers-studying-how-fungus-among-us-can-control/article_85b9df9a-184c-5d5b-8cde-4a1854901eb9.html
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>     Do not know if you are on their distribution but this looks like some thing up your ally.  If you do get Prism's stuff - sorry to bother you
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> >         Exciting Update on Biocontrol for Ailanthus---------- Original Message ----------
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