treelooker
Treehouser
See http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/fungi-pictures/32277-sudden-euc-death.html for the ignominious skewering I sustained at the hands of a brilliant but haughty (seems to be a genetic trait) dutchman at whose feet we laid our efforts to date. not as bad tying in with a backup biner, but bad enough.
We finally connected with a govt mycologist who is kind of in Shigo's old position, who said "It should be possible to identify any microfungi isolated from the cankered tissue. If we identified some known pathogens, then this would give a good indication of what is causing the cankers.
However collecting specimens and doing the initial isolations is beyond my resources. If joebob can do this, then we might get an answer. I am sorry but I don't have time next Monday for the field visit.
So yes, drop the samples here and we'll give it a go."
Any idea what "initial isolations" means? Separating tissues out and culturing in a dish? What how where? Ack.
We've reached out to the world authority on Chrysoporthe (now apparently redivided into other genera via DNA analysis it seems) named Gryzenhout, and await help from her or anywhere. SOS!
We finally connected with a govt mycologist who is kind of in Shigo's old position, who said "It should be possible to identify any microfungi isolated from the cankered tissue. If we identified some known pathogens, then this would give a good indication of what is causing the cankers.
However collecting specimens and doing the initial isolations is beyond my resources. If joebob can do this, then we might get an answer. I am sorry but I don't have time next Monday for the field visit.
So yes, drop the samples here and we'll give it a go."
Any idea what "initial isolations" means? Separating tissues out and culturing in a dish? What how where? Ack.
We've reached out to the world authority on Chrysoporthe (now apparently redivided into other genera via DNA analysis it seems) named Gryzenhout, and await help from her or anywhere. SOS!