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Chuan Hong @BoxwoodHealth

All about boxwood, an iconic landscape plant, major evergreen nursery crop and important forest tree species, and its health!

Joined December 2021
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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…).
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Microbiome-based breeding for resistance and poduction.
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New Research on antidesiccant impact on boxwood microbiome by BBIG Scientists and collaborators at bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.c….

Boxwood phyllosphere fungal and bacterial communities and their differential responses to film-fo...

BMC Microbiology - Anti-desiccant is a class of agrochemicals widely used to protect plants from water stresses, rapid temperature variations, heat and sunburn, frost and freeze damages, transplant...

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Briana and Taylor presenting BBIG at APS meeting in Denver.
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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.
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Visited Jardin Public 8/19 am, well organized and decorated, focusing on vegs, herbs, flowers, but no box though.
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Visited Jardin Botanica in Bordeaux 8/18 pm and saw no box.
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Saw drought damage to box in Toledo, a suburban of Madrid on 8/17.
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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.
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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.
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Searched for Box blight in Plaza de Oriente, Madrid on 8/15-16, taking one sample.
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A potential hotdpot at Jardines Sabatini found on 8/15
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Looked for box blight in Jardine Sabathia- Parque del Campo del zmoro and took 3 samples.
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BBIG Team gathered in Denver during the Plant Health 2023 - APS annual meeting.
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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.
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New BMPs for production nurseries by Virginia Boxwood Blight Task Force at pubs.ext.vt.edu/content/dam/…
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Latest research on boxwood blight published in HortScience by BBIG Scientists at journals.ashs.org/hortsci/vi…
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Latest research about boxwood leaf endophyte community composition and network structures at Phytobiomes Journal at apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/1…

Leaf Endophyte Community Composition and Network Structures Differ Between Tolerant and Susceptible...

Differential tolerance of English boxwood to boxwood blight has been linked to the ratio of culturable bacterial and fungal dominance in the leaf tissue of representative samples. To further unders...

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APHIS Establishes a Quarantine for Box Tree Moth (Cydalima perspectalis) in Michigan (content.govdelivery.com/acco…)

APHIS Establishes a Quarantine for Box Tree Moth (Cydalima perspectalis) in Michigan

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