Chuan Hong

All about boxwood, an iconic landscape plant, major evergreen nursery crop and important forest tree species, and its health!

[Chuan Hong @BoxwoodHealth]

BBIG at Virginia Tech's Hampton Roads AREC continues to accept applications for the Postdoc microbiome scientist position (https://t.co/dkV8WP6FFe).

[Chuan Hong @BoxwoodHealth]

Microbiome-based breeding for resistance and poduction.

[Chuan Hong @BoxwoodHealth]

New Research on antidesiccant impact on boxwood microbiome by BBIG Scientists and collaborators at https://t.co/j9vLFN1tPf.

[Chuan Hong @BoxwoodHealth]

Briana and Taylor presenting BBIG at APS meeting in Denver.

[Chuan Hong @BoxwoodHealth]

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.

[Chuan Hong @BoxwoodHealth]

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

[Chuan Hong @BoxwoodHealth]

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

[Chuan Hong @BoxwoodHealth]

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

[Chuan Hong @BoxwoodHealth]

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.

[Chuan Hong @BoxwoodHealth]

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.

[Chuan Hong @BoxwoodHealth]

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

[Chuan Hong @BoxwoodHealth]

A potential hotdpot at Jardines Sabatini found on 8/15

[Chuan Hong @BoxwoodHealth]

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

[Chuan Hong @BoxwoodHealth]

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

[Chuan Hong @BoxwoodHealth]

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.

[Chuan Hong @BoxwoodHealth]

New BMPs for production nurseries by Virginia Boxwood Blight Task Force at https://t.co/ZcGf8jJJFz

[Chuan Hong @BoxwoodHealth]

Latest research on boxwood blight published in HortScience by BBIG Scientists at https://t.co/eeEcEYPl2h

[Chuan Hong @BoxwoodHealth]

Latest research about boxwood leaf endophyte community composition and network structures at Phytobiomes Journal at https://t.co/kz3AKU9vb2

[Chuan Hong @BoxwoodHealth]

APHIS Establishes a Quarantine for Box Tree Moth (Cydalima perspectalis) in Michigan (https://t.co/IGnfeAXTMv)