DNA sequencing shows young trees are more likely to have gene variants that confer partial resistance to a fungus that has ...

Fraxinus excelsior could be felled by gales, seared and riven by lightning, decapitated and dismembered for pollards and coppices, slashed and laid for hedgerows – and still spring back. It’s no ...

The genome of the common ash (Fraxinus excelsior) has been sequenced for the first time - an important step in the battle against ash dieback disease.Researchers, writing in Nature, found UK ash ...

Detailed studies have elucidated the dual nature of H. fraxineus, showing that while it acts aggressively on Fraxinus excelsior in Europe, it exhibits a benign presence in its native range [4].

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Because the fungus takes much longer to kill large trees than young ones, Buggs’s team was able to compare the genomes of 128 adult European ash trees (Fraxinus excelsior) and 458 saplings at a ...