App to help track die back

[Adam Bourne]

More PR, listen, NOTHING is going to stop the spread of this disease but some will survive, a pathogen as a rule only takes out 90-95% of a population before either the host overcomes it or too few hosts starve the pathogen out.

 

There is always a few resistant hosts, but we will be missing many ash for many generations.

 

 

 

Tony it's an app to try.....why have you a problem with people trying? If by chance something is done to help stop the spread, then tracking its movement is going to be all the more worth while......

 

I'm all for the app and I think it's a great idea, track......try and find a containment scheme and hopefully just hopefully stop the disease...

 

It's a long shot but well worth the time effort and yes money we probably don't have....

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Tony it's an app to try.....why have you a problem with people trying? If by chance something is done to help stop the spread, then tracking its movement is going to be all the more worth while......

 

I'm all for the app and I think it's a great idea, track......try and find a containment scheme and hopefully just hopefully stop the disease...

 

It's a long shot but well worth the time effort and yes money we probably don't have....

 

we shall chat again ten years from now mr bourne:sneaky2:

[HCR]

If by 'control the spread' people mean 'fell every ash tree within X distance of the infected trees' there is a strong chance that we will wipe out genetically determined resistance. Research in Denmark has shown that this exists at a small (and randomly distributed) level throughout the population.

 

The last thing we want to do is fell and burn the DNA of our future ash trees!

 

If the fungus can spread across the channel to Kent, Essex and Suffolk and has already been confirmed at several locations from Kent to Scotland, it is almost certainly very widespread indeed throughout the country, and probably on at least its second generation of infection.

 

Presence of natural genetic resistance in Fraxinus excelsior (Oleraceae) to Chalara fraxinea (Ascomycota): an emerging infectious disease