Ashes to ashes: Large Fraxinus germplasm collections and their fates

Kim C. Steiner; Paul Lupo

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Ashes to ashes: Large Fraxinus germplasm collections and their fates

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Kim C. Steiner, Paul Lupo

Year:

2010

Type:

General Technical Report - Proceedings

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Michler, Charles H.; Ginzel, Matthew D., eds. 2010. Proceedings of symposium on ash in North America; 2010 March 9-11; West Lafayette, IN. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-72. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 21.

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Abstract

As the emerald ash borer (EAB) threatens the survival of our ash species, measures should be taken to preserve their genetic variability in the event that we discover a way to restore populations destroyed by the beetle. As it happens, large germplasm collections exist for our most important and widely distributed eastern species of the genus, white ash (Fraxinus americana L.) and green ash (F. pennsylvanica Marsh.).

Parent Publication

Proceedings of symposium on ash in North America

Citation

Steiner, Kim C.; Lupo, Paul. 2010. Ashes to ashes: Large Fraxinus germplasm collections and their fates. In: Michler, Charles H.; Ginzel, Matthew D., eds. 2010. Proceedings of symposium on ash in North America; 2010 March 9-11; West Lafayette, IN. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-72. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 21.