Traditional tree health monitoring has been a hands-on, labor-intensive job. Scientists develop 'plant doctor' that could ...

Liu Fangling (right), a plant pathology expert, and her colleague Wang Hong, who are part of a team of "tree doctors", inspect an ancient tree in Dujiangyan's Lidui Park in Chengdu, Sichuan province.

Hawkins said an arborist is known in some circles as a tree doctor. “An arborist is someone ... told The Augusta Chronicle in an email, “Many animals depend on trees for some part of their ...