When the branches of your trees and shrubs are bare in winter, you have an opportunity to spot cankers that might be hidden by leaves in summer. A canker is an area of disease in the wood of a plant. ...

This fungal disease is spread by a small twig beetle, eventually leading to the death of infected trees. Thousand cankers disease has been found in many western states. The Indiana Department of ...

Starting in the spring of 2010, farmers from Sicily - the major pistachio production area of Italy - have been reporting a previously unknown disease on the trees. Characterised by cankers and ...

Recently, questions and concerns have come to the Division of Forestry from forest landowners and Consultant Foresters regarding the sale of black walnut trees now, because of Thousand Cankers Disease ...

Caused by a fungus that’s transported by the walnut twig beetle, the disease attacks the innermost layer of a tree’s bark, called the phloem. The forests of Pennsylvania’s northern tier produce the ...

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Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The term " canker" is used to describe a killed area or blister on the bark, ...

Thousand cankers disease (TCD) of walnut has been detected in Maryland and Pennsylvania, so a detection is possible in Delaware this season. The disease caused by a fungus and carried by the very ...

This page includes summaries of scientific studies on Darling 54 chestnuts. Two separate chestnut blight inoculations (controlled, replicated intentional infections with the blight fungus) confirm ...

When a branch falls or a tree dies, one common reason is a group of diseases with an especially ominous name: canker diseases. “Canker” comes from the same root as “cancer.” Like cancers, cankers can ...

Students from different universities attending a summer program at UT's National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis are investigating the spread of thousand cankers disease, which has ...