Field trials in the forest

Many of our projects spend the summer running and collecting data from field trials. Here are some behind the scenes photos of our BAC-STOP team in action. They are collecting information about acute oak decline and the impact of drought on disease progression.

Megan Richardson paring away bark on oak trees inoculated with beetle eggs and bacteria to find out whether these agents can cause lesions and galleries that characterise Acute Oak Decline.
Sunitha Subramaniam collects the data from the tree Megan is working on.
Rotting tissue, caused by bacteria that were inoculated into oak trees and sinuous larval galleries of Agrilus biguttatus which were co-inoculated with the bacteria. The lesion is surrounded by healthy tree tissue. The lesion has taken a year to develop.
Night life with AOD! Here the team is culturing chips of oak tissue on agar plates in our open-air lab at our accommodation.
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