Comprehensive Report on Sudden Oak Death: 10-year cooperative research effort provides basis for containment (Dec 23, 2010)

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Comprehensive Report on Sudden Oak Death: 10-year cooperative research effort provides basis for containment (Dec 23, 2010)
USDA. FS. Pacific Southwest Research Station.
Synthesizing more than 10 years of cooperative research on the exotic invasive, quarantine sudden oak death pathogen, the USDA Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station recently published "Sudden Oak Death and Phytophthora ramorum: A Summary of the Literature." This 181-page comprehensive report covers a wide range of topics, including a history of sudden oak death, identification and distribution of the disease, epidemiology and modeling, management and control, and economic and environmental impacts.