chelsea flower show bbc 2 now

[RobArb]

there's a piece on DED and rescuing the species in the next 30 mins sometime

[RobArb]

just been on:thumbup:

 

the elm may be back

[janey]

How about giving us a synopsis Rob and saving me from having to endure Mr Titmarsh?

 

[Dak]

How about giving us a synopsis Rob and saving me from having to endure Mr Titmarsh?

 

 

All I caught was "can't yet say immune but can say highly resistant too" sounds promising! Google time I think!

 

Dak

[RobArb]

the long and short of it was that a LA down south (can't remember which one, one of the sex's) noticed that during the 60's-70's outbreak of DED a few old trees had completely withstood the effects of the disease, al grouped together so the LA and a local Tree surgeon at the time got together and took a load of cuttings off these trees and propagated them in a nursery environment (20 years old now), then they micropropagised those ones and the progeny show signs (at 9 years old) of being highly resistant to DED

 

Only time will tell whether they are fully resistant or not but the signs are looking good and he has grown thousands!

[janey]

That ol' chestnut

 

There was a piece on the BBC news about that not so very long ago.

 

It jusy goes to show that with all the advances in GM technology it's the traditional method of plant selection that may enable elms to survive to maturity in our landscape once more

[RobArb]

mother earth does it again:biggrin: