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Prospects for Resistance Breeding in Trees (webinar)
September 22, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
September 22
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET
Our speaker Carolyn (Carrie) Pike is a Forest Regeneration Specialist with the USDA Forest Service. Carrie will talk about ongoing work to improve resistance in beloved tree species like American elm, the ash species, and butternut to build in resistance to Dutch elm disease, emerald ash borer, and butternut canker, respectively, that have devastated these species.
This is part of a Forest Ecology and Management Webinar Series by the Forest Ecology Working Group and the US Fish and Wildlife Services National Conservation Training Center (NCTC). Previous webinars are available to few for a few weeks at the Training Center’s website.
Contact John Ossanna with technical questions or if Closed Captioning is required: john_ossanna@fws.gov