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  • Pōhutukawa tree taken at Cornwallis Beach, West Auckland

    Postgraduate (PGDipSci/Masters) scholarships: Rongoā approaches to myrtle rust control

    18 Feb 20


    Funding is available within the Beyond Mytle Rust research programme for two students, for up to two years of full-time postgraduate study. The aims of this project are to investigate rongoā approaches to biocontrol and assist in colletion of biocontrol agents with mātauranga Māori guidance. Join this ambitious $13m research programme and help safeguard Aotearoa's precious myrtles for future generations. Read the job description for more information.
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  • <em>Austropuccinia psidii</em> on <em>Syzygium australe</em>

    ‘Tis the season – for gardening and for plant disease

    19 Dec 19


    All throughout Aotearoa, offices are closing and people are winding down for the summer. For those of us staying home or visiting baches this season, a popular summertime activity is gardening. However, there is a threat to New Zealand’s native plants that may be lurking in your own garden – myrtle rust.
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  • Myrtle rust field technician Roanne Sutherland (right) with Tauranga community members. Image thanks to Scion.

    Myrtle rust featured at Tauranga Conservation week

    21 Nov 19


    There’s still plenty of local community interest about the research and management of myrtle rust. That’s what Scion and the Tauranga DOC (Department of Conservation) office found out when they teamed up in Conservation Week this year.
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  • Hoa Nguyen, BMR’s newset PhD candidate

    A new recruit for Beyond Myrtle Rust

    21 Nov 19


    The pathogen causing myrtle rust might be tiny, but it’s effects could impact carbon, water and nutrient cycles at both the plant and ecosystem levels. These ecosystem functions will be the study focus of Hoa Nguyen – the latest addition to the Beyond Myrtle Rust team.
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  • James McCarthy in the field

    Myrtles for tomorrow – researchers to share updates

    15 Nov 19


    The Beyond Myrtle Rust Programme is proud to be sponsoring a myrtle rust symposium at this year’s New Zealand Ecological Society Conference in Christchurch. The symposium, titled “Myrtles for Tomorrow: Myrtle Rust Research Updates” will take place on Monday, 2 December 2019, the first day of the conference.
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  • Dr Michael Bartlett surveying a population of rōhutu (<em>Neomyrtus pedunculata</em>) – one of the native New Zealand species in the family affected by Myrtle Rust. Image: Roanne Sutherland (Scion)

    Preparing our trees’ defences against myrtle rust

    24 Sep 19


    Myrtle rust is a disease caused by an invasive pathogen that infects iconic native New Zealand trees in the Myrtaceae family, such as pōhutukawa and manuka. The windborne fungus causes tree dieback and potentially tree death.
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  • Lilly pilly

    Prune your hedges and prevent the spread of myrtle rust

    20 Aug 19


    Scientists advise to prune your lilly pilly hedges this month, to save New Zealand’s native plants
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