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BBIG at Virginia Tech's Hampton Roads AREC continues to accept applications for the Postdoc microbiome scientist position (careers.pageuppeople.com/968…).
New Research on antidesiccant impact on boxwood microbiome by BBIG Scientists and collaborators at bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.c….
After consulting with hotel and city tourist office, took a train to Saint Foy la Grande then a taxi to le Jardin du Chateau Pierrail for private box plantings.
Visited Jardin Public 8/19 am, well organized and decorated, focusing on vegs, herbs, flowers, but no box though.
Saw box framed every bed in the Jardin Botanico of Madrid with different levels of BTM but no sign of box blight late pm of 8/16.
Found large box planting on Jardines del Buen Retiro in Madrid in the pm of 8/16 although no sign of blight, too hot (nearly 40C) and dry.
BBIG launches a new webinar series - BBIG Boxwood Seminars to expedite technology transfer from lab to field with the first webinar set for August 23. Webinar Registration - Zoom.
New BMPs for production nurseries by Virginia Boxwood Blight Task Force at pubs.ext.vt.edu/content/dam/…
Latest research on boxwood blight published in HortScience by BBIG Scientists at journals.ashs.org/hortsci/vi…
Latest research about boxwood leaf endophyte community composition and network structures at Phytobiomes Journal at apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/1…
APHIS Establishes a Quarantine for Box Tree Moth (Cydalima perspectalis) in Michigan (content.govdelivery.com/acco…)