Future Oak
Oak trees are home to a wide range of microorganisms, known as the oak microbiome, many of which have beneficial effects on tree health. They also host bacteria which can contribute to Acute Oak Decline (AOD), a serious threat facing …
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Talking about trees: Oak stakeholder meeting 2023
At the beginning of March our BAC-STOP and Future Oak projects welcomed stakeholders to Shropshire for a joint meeting to share their research into Acute Oak Decline (AOD) and other tree diseases. AOD is a complex multi-factor disease. Bacterial species …
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Acute Oak Decline
Acute Oak Decline (AOD) is caused by a number of factors with bacteria playing an important role. It mainly affects mature oak trees and can kill a tree within a few years of first symptoms. The trees are initially weakened …
Odes to our iconic oaks
Today for Plant Health Week we are celebrating all the ways that plants make life better. Here Mike Dunn, from the BAC-STOP project, shares some of the wonderful submissions to the Odes 2 Oaks campaign. The iconic oak tree is …
Updating our understanding of Acute Oak Decline
On 16 February 2022 over 100 participants gathered online, from as far afield as Latvia and South Africa, to hear about the latest research on Acute Oak Decline (AOD). This online webinar included research updates from both the BAC-STOP and …
Celebrate Oaks this National Tree Week
To mark National Tree Week Bac-Stop social scientist Mike Dunn reflects on our endutring love of oak trees.
Oak Health Stakeholder Meeting
Hear about the latest research into oak diseases.
Odes 2 Oaks
What do oak trees mean to you? Can you imagine a world without them? We are inviting everyone who loves oaks to submit an Ode 2 Oaks.
Odes 2 Oaks
What do oak trees mean to you? Can you imagine a world without them? Unfortunately our iconic oak trees face several threats from pests and diseases including Acute Oak Decline. Unchecked these threats could mean a future without oak trees …
Research summaries now available
In the last few months of the Bacterial Plant Diseases Programme our communications lead Sarah McLusky has been working with the projects and graphic designer Thomas Pawley to create summaries of their research and findings. Each summary give some background …
How BPD projects are using and contributing to culture collections
By Joana Vicente and Andrew Aspin As we are approaching the final stages of most of our BPD projects, we are turning our attention to impact, publications, stakeholders’ engagement, and dissemination. Other important aspects of these final stages also involve …
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Beetle larvae boosts bacterial pathogenicity
The precise pathology of acute oak decline is still unclear, but the disease correlates with the presence of the bacterium Brenneria goodwinii and larvae of the Agrilus biguttatus beetle. This new research preprint from Bac-Stop and Future Oak explores the …
Developing microbial communities (and human ones too!): Alejandra’s placement report
Our fourth placement report is from Alejandra Ordonez. Alejandra is a research assistant and PhD student in the Future Oak project. She visited the Institute of Environmental Biotechnology at Graz University of Technology, led by Prof. Gabriele Berg. Alejandra’s placement …
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2022 – Review of the Year
We’ve made it to the end of 2022! For most of us this has been the first full year since 2019 that has felt kind of ‘normal’. For the Bacterial Plant Disease Programme this return to normality made for a …
Fighting Bac: Making microbes our allies (Stakeholder Workshop)
In the first of our Fighting Bac workshops our researchers will share promising new strategies for controlling bacterial plant diseases using microbes and microbial products. The workshop will focus particularly on the next steps for translating these findings into real …
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#HelpingKeepPlantsHealthy for Plant Health Week 2022
This year we coordinated a busy programme of activities for plant health week including a webinar, two Twitter takeovers and the launch of our new Resources web page. These activities were to mark Plant Health Week 2022, coordinated by DEFRA, …
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Innovative approaches to controlling bacterial plant diseases (webinar)
As part of Plant Health Week, this webinar will explore innovative biocontrol methods that could reduce the impact of bacterial plant diseases on our farms, forests and gardens. Conventional antibiotic treatments can damage the environment and are becoming less effective …
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Bac Together in Sheffield and Online
We finally did it! After a long wait due to COVID restrictions, on Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16 March 2022, we finally had our first face-to-face meeting – albeit with a substantial online cohort too. The 41 in-person attendees arrived …
And the winner is… revealing our Bac In The Picture photo competition results
Who are the winners of our first photo competition? Find out here!
How to recognise a healthy forest: Perspectives from private forest managers in Britain (2024)
Abstract The managers of private forests have critical roles in responding to forest health challenges. Basic knowledge of how they interpret and understand the health of their trees is, however, very sparse. Via an online survey of private forest managers …