Chuan Hong

BBIG at Virginia Tech's Hampton Roads AREC continues to accept applications for the Postdoc microbiome scientist position (careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/j…).

Microbiome-based breeding for resistance and poduction.

New Research on antidesiccant impact on boxwood microbiome by BBIG Scientists and collaborators at bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11….

Briana and Taylor presenting BBIG at APS meeting in Denver.

After consulting with hotel and city tourist office, took a train to Saint Foy la Grande then a taxi to le Jardin du Chateau Pierrail for private box plantings.

Visited Jardin Public 8/19 am, well organized and decorated, focusing on vegs, herbs, flowers, but no box though.

Visited Jardin Botanica in Bordeaux 8/18 pm and saw no box.

Saw drought damage to box in Toledo, a suburban of Madrid on 8/17.

Saw box framed every bed in the Jardin Botanico of Madrid with different levels of BTM but no sign of box blight late pm of 8/16.

Found large box planting on Jardines del Buen Retiro in Madrid in the pm of 8/16 although no sign of blight, too hot (nearly 40C) and dry.

Searched for Box blight in Plaza de Oriente, Madrid on 8/15-16, taking one sample.

A potential hotdpot at Jardines Sabatini found on 8/15

Looked for box blight in Jardine Sabathia- Parque del Campo del zmoro and took 3 samples.

BBIG Team gathered in Denver during the Plant Health 2023 - APS annual meeting.

BBIG launches a new webinar series - BBIG Boxwood Seminars to expedite technology transfer from lab to field with the first webinar set for August 23. Webinar Registration - Zoom.

New BMPs for production nurseries by Virginia Boxwood Blight Task Force at pubs.ext.vt.edu/content/dam/pu…

Latest research on boxwood blight published in HortScience by BBIG Scientists at journals.ashs.org/hortsci/view/j…

Latest research about boxwood leaf endophyte community composition and network structures at Phytobiomes Journal at apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PB…

APHIS Establishes a Quarantine for Box Tree Moth (Cydalima perspectalis) in Michigan (content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDAA…)