Forest Pathology and Mycology Laboratory City Forest
November 25, 2009
 
In The News

  • Green Neighbors: Help for Getting a Grip on Sudden Oak Death: Part Two, The Berkeley Daily Planet, 10/22/09. Article

  • How oak death spores survive baffles scientists, pathogen that causes sudden oak death is baffling scientists even after 14 years on its trail, San Francsico Chronicle, 7/24/09. Article

  • SAS Intitute podcast with Matteo Garbelotto. JMP Podcast #27, 2009. Podcast

  • Conserving top dollar crops, Researchers find a link between harvesting pressures and conservation efforts on Matsutake mushrooms, Breakthroughs Magazine, UC College of Natural Resources, Winter 2009. Report

  • Sudden oak death, As California continues to respond to an outbreak of swine flu – plant biologists are dealing with a deadly epidemic of a different kind. KQED Quest Radio. 5/11/09. Webcast

  • Hunting for sudden oak death disease, "SOD Blitz" survey involves local community in disease fight. San Jose Mercury News. 5/10/09. Article

  • Rx for oak trees, Ecological Society of America, Frontiers in Ecology, Dispatches 4/09 Pg. 122. PDF

  • Science-based outreach helps stem sudden oak death, Importance of community outreach and public information programs to prevent the spread of SOD. California Agriculture. 1/8/09. Article

  • Deadly oak disease plagues researchers, Scientists to protect tanoaks. Half Moon Bay Review. 11/19/08. Article

  • Molecular Ecology, Editorial and Retrospective 2008 PDF

  • Fungus-killed oaks make Basin Complex fire hotter, harder to fight, Dead trees create greater danger. Los Angeles Times. 7/7/08. Article

  • Tracking a killer. On the trail of Sudden Oak Death. California Magazine, July/August 2008. Article

  • UC eggheads find where oak plague started, Origins of the disease. East Bay Express. 4/17/08. Blog

  • Mount Tam, Santa Cruz sites called launching pads for sudden oak death, Reconstructing the epidemic. Marin Independent Journal. 4/16/08. Article

  • Experts determine where Sudden Oak Death began. Nursery plants and people believed to help spread of disease. San Francisco Chronicle, 4/17/08. Article

  • Sudden Oak Death epidemic traced to two coastal California sites. DNA fingerprint indicates introduction through the nursery trade. San Jose Mercury News, 4/17/08. Article

  • Scientists pinpoint source of Bay Area's Sudden Oak Death epidemic. Scotts Valley and Mt. Tam seen as likely starting points for infection. San Jose Mercury News, 4/16/08. Article

  • Bringing Forests up to Date. The Garden of Eden of the Golden State is already gone. San Francisco Chronicle, 2/29/08. Article

  • Ask an Arborist: Sudden Oak Death still alive and well. San Francisco Chronicle, 10/6/07. Article

  • Sudden Oak Death. As oaks are dying in our foothills and mountains, local residents are rallying to save the cherished trees. The Almanac, October 2007. Cover Story

  • WWII Tree Disease. A fungus brought by American troops in WWII infected Italian trees. AAAS Science Update, October 2007. Radio Feature/Pocast

  • Plant Plague: Sudden Oak Death. SOD has devastated over one million oak trees across Northern California and southern Oregon. KQED QUEST, October 2007. Video and Website

  • A Pox Upon the Kauri. New Zealanders rally to save their much-loved 2,000-year-old national symbol. Smithsonian, October 2007. Article

  • Trees Become Casualties of War. Introduction of US pathogen to Europe during WWII. The Lancet, August 2005. PDF




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