DNA sequencing shows young trees are more likely to have gene variants that confer partial resistance to a fungus that has been wiping out ash trees across Europe ...

Natural selection is acting upon thousands of locations within the ash tree DNA, driving the evolution of resistance as the ...

An invasive beetle that kills ash trees has made it to the Nashville area. As a result, up to 13% of Tennessee's trees could ...

Ash dieback, which was first seen in the UK in 2012, causes leaf loss and crown dieback and can lead to tree death, with fears it could wipe out up to 85% of Britain’s native ash trees, as they ...

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 ...