2009 SOD Science Symposium
Alan Kanaskie
Oregon Deparment of Forestry, Salem, OR
- Aerial applications are working for control
- Removing tan oak species in control areas
- No tan oak-no disease
Keith Walters
Food and Environment Research Agency, Sand Hutton, York, UK
Nurseries are principal cause of pathogen movement:
- 62% Rhododendron shrubs
- 15%Pieris
- 4% Camellia
- 5%viburnum
Two nurseries being used for control studies-soil sterilization using steam injection and complete plant inventory material evaluation.
Clive Brazier
Forest Research, Alice Holt Lodge, Farnham, Surrey, UK
International plant trade spreading SOD pathogen worldwide.
- Mode of spread: Irrigation water
