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BBIG Boxwood Seminars
Learn how your nursery production practices can impact boxwood blight risk and your potential for outbreaks. Whether you’re currently dealing with this disease or working to…
View seminarIt is neither economically sustainable nor environmentally acceptable to make multiple fungicide applications to protect boxwood, a key nursery crop and iconic landscape plant, from boxwood…
View seminarThis educational session aims to equip nursery producers, gardeners, and plant health professionals with vital knowledge and strategies to combat the pervasive threat of Calonectria pseudonaviculata,…
View seminarThe Boxwood Blight Insight Group (BBIG) invites horticulturists, researchers, and plant enthusiasts to join an insightful webinar titled, "In the Lab and the Landscape at the…
View seminarThe Boxwood Blight Insight Group is pleased to host the next webinar in their on-going efforts to assist the industry manage boxwood health in the nursery…
View seminarInternational Boxwood Seminars
by Dr. Iryna Matsiakh, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
View seminarPresented by Len Coop - Associate Professor @Oregon Integrated Pest Management Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon (USA) Boxwood blight is a fungal disease that can…
View seminarVolutella blight is commonly found on boxwood plants worldwide. Although some consider it mainly a saprophyte surviving on dead tissues, it is capable of initiating disease…
View seminarIn this seminar, Matthew will trace the progress of box blight and its management in the UK since it was first found in the mid-1990s. Early…
View seminarThe box tree moth, Cydalima perspectalis, is a pest of boxwood (Buxus spp.) originating from East Asia. Since 2007, it has invaded Europe and the Caucasus,…
View seminarBoxwood (Buxus L. spp., Buxaceae) are popular woody landscape shrubs grown for their diverse forms and broad-leaved evergreen foliage, with an estimated $141 million economic impact…
View seminarby Lynn R Batdorf, International Cultivar Registration Authority
View seminarby Dr. Thomas Brand of Landwirtschaftskammer Niedersachsen, Germany
View seminarBBIG On-Demand at Cultivate
Presented by Fulya Baysal-Furel, Tennessee State University
View seminarLearn more about the development of improved woody ornamental landscape plants with superior ornamental value and that are tolerant to abiotic and biotic stress. Using the…
View seminarAll too frequently we rely on best guesses—learn how you can take the guesswork out of the boxwood blight decision making process. Join this session for…
View seminarUnderstanding the latest research in fungicides in the battle for boxwood health is a key component in managing your boxwood population, whether in a nursery or…
View seminarThe Boxwood Blight Insight Group (BBIG) is a team of scientists working together on an USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture – Specialty Crop Research…
View seminarTeam Capacity-Building Seminars
by Paige Ghra of Virginia Tech on July 20, 2020
View seminarby Dr. Carrie Fearer of University of New Hampshire
View seminarBox tree moth observations in Europe by Mr. Bennett Saunders of Saunders Genetics LLC Phenology of the box tree moth in Western New York by Dr. Alejandro Del-Pozo…
View seminarby Dr. Xiaoping Li of Virginia Tech
View seminarResearch Publications
Avenot, H. F., Baudoin, A., and Hong, C. X. 2021. Conidial production and viability of Calonectria pseudonaviculata on infected boxwood leaves as affected by temperature, wetness…
Read moreJournal of Environmental Horticulture (2021) 39 (3): 91–99. The purpose of this study is to examine the changes in the sales of boxwood (Buxus spp.) that…
Read moreJournal of Environmental Horticulture (2021) 39 (3): 100–107. We investigated the spread of boxwood blight in a simulated landscape under conducive natural conditions from 2017 to…
Read moreHow container spacing can help reduce the impact of boxwood blight in nursery production. It’s been a year and a half since the COVID-19 pandemic started.…
Read moreNew Website & Webinar Series Announced WASHINGTON, DC and COLUMBUS, OH— USDA NIFA awarded a confederation of researchers a multiyear grant to help elucidate the mysteries…
Read moreBaysal-Gurel F, Jennings C, and Simmons T. 2020. Evaluation of fungicides for the control of boxwood blight, 2020. Plant Disease Management Reports 15:OT002. https://www.plantmanagementnetwork.org/pub/trial/PDMR/volume15/ Castroagudín VL,…
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