Ginette Alexander
@green-goddess.bsky.social
Tree health and training for The Tree Health Centre at The Yorkshire Arboretum (York, UK) 🌳🌲🍄🟫🪲🪳🦠🧫
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@actionoak.bsky.social have published their Annual Report for 2024-25 ahead of #NationalTreeWeek.
The report features a range of research including on:
☁️ How elevated CO2 levels will impact our oaks
🌱 How defence priming could protect seedlings
➕ and more!
See below for more 👇
#ActionOak
The report features a range of research including on:
☁️ How elevated CO2 levels will impact our oaks
🌱 How defence priming could protect seedlings
➕ and more!
See below for more 👇
#ActionOak
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
@actionoak.bsky.social have published their Annual Report for 2024-25 ahead of #NationalTreeWeek.
The report features a range of research including on:
☁️ How elevated CO2 levels will impact our oaks
🌱 How defence priming could protect seedlings
➕ and more!
See below for more 👇
#ActionOak
The report features a range of research including on:
☁️ How elevated CO2 levels will impact our oaks
🌱 How defence priming could protect seedlings
➕ and more!
See below for more 👇
#ActionOak
At the @forest-protection.bsky.social #BritainsForestFuture conference. Keynote speaker Prof. Bianca Ambrose-Oji talked about the interface between research and practice - highlighting the need for more development of research to facilitate practical implementation of best practice.
#PlantHealth 🌳
#PlantHealth 🌳
The panel also discussed the importance of #biosecurity, emphasising that prevention of new pests and pathogens is key 🗝️
To find out more about Richard's project, please visit www.forestprotection.uk/project/2209... 🔗
#BritainsForestFuture #KnowledgeExchange #TreeHealth
(4/4).
To find out more about Richard's project, please visit www.forestprotection.uk/project/2209... 🔗
#BritainsForestFuture #KnowledgeExchange #TreeHealth
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Mapping the distribution and diversity of UK elm - Centre for Forest Protection
www.forestprotection.uk
November 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
At the @forest-protection.bsky.social #BritainsForestFuture conference. Keynote speaker Prof. Bianca Ambrose-Oji talked about the interface between research and practice - highlighting the need for more development of research to facilitate practical implementation of best practice.
#PlantHealth 🌳
#PlantHealth 🌳
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For this year's #UKFungusDay, Ginette Alexander (Head of Tree Health and Training) writes about how tricky tree troubles are tackled at The Yorkshire Arboretum. 🌳 Read Ginette's blog on Hidden invaders - fungal foes in our trees: www.ukfungusday.co.uk/hiddeninvaders
#fungi #trees
#fungi #trees
Hidden invaders | UK Fungus Day
By Ginette Alexander, Head of Tree Health and Training, The Yorkshire Arboretum
www.ukfungusday.co.uk
September 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
For this year's #UKFungusDay, Ginette Alexander (Head of Tree Health and Training) writes about how tricky tree troubles are tackled at The Yorkshire Arboretum. 🌳 Read Ginette's blog on Hidden invaders - fungal foes in our trees: www.ukfungusday.co.uk/hiddeninvaders
#fungi #trees
#fungi #trees
It was great to host the guys from @anthropocenebio.bsky.social last week and talk to them about the work we do at #TheTreeHealthCentre to help protect our trees.
Keep in touch 🌳
Keep in touch 🌳
October 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
It was great to host the guys from @anthropocenebio.bsky.social last week and talk to them about the work we do at #TheTreeHealthCentre to help protect our trees.
Keep in touch 🌳
Keep in touch 🌳
Anytime @cobwebdr.bsky.social and thanks for letting our #TreeHealthVolunteers tag along for the experience.
#PlantHealth
#PlantHealth
Thanks to @green-goddess.bsky.social at Yorkshire Arboretum for hosting Fera Science #planthealth #professionals @royalsocbio.bsky.social gaining experience of tree health and #biosecurity @plantchief.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Anytime @cobwebdr.bsky.social and thanks for letting our #TreeHealthVolunteers tag along for the experience.
#PlantHealth
#PlantHealth
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📢 Call for Abstracts!
Special Issue in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change focused on innovations in plant health, climate resilience, policy, and public engagement—through the power of sentinel plants🌱🪲🦠
🗓️ Submit yours (deadline 8 June): www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
Special Issue in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change focused on innovations in plant health, climate resilience, policy, and public engagement—through the power of sentinel plants🌱🪲🦠
🗓️ Submit yours (deadline 8 June): www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
Frontiers | Public Arboreta, Genetic Trials, and Reciprocal Plantings: Sentinels for Early Detection of Non-native Insects and Pathogens and Protecting Tree Genetic Resources
Public arboreta are botanical gardens devoted to trees that often preserve species outside their native range. Along with other established ex situ resources...
www.frontiersin.org
May 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
📢 Call for Abstracts!
Special Issue in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change focused on innovations in plant health, climate resilience, policy, and public engagement—through the power of sentinel plants🌱🪲🦠
🗓️ Submit yours (deadline 8 June): www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
Special Issue in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change focused on innovations in plant health, climate resilience, policy, and public engagement—through the power of sentinel plants🌱🪲🦠
🗓️ Submit yours (deadline 8 June): www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
📣 Citizen Science opportunity ⬇️
Hi everyone, I am launching a community science scheme "Spider Spies" where we are asking you, to send us pictures and if you're keen and able samples of Misumena vatia, the Flower Crab Spider to investigate their interactions with their host flowers and the invertebrate community around them.
May 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
📣 Citizen Science opportunity ⬇️
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If you are, or know of, an apprentice working within the UK bioscience sector then apply for the RSB Apprentice of the Year Award!
The award recognises apprentices' contributions to their teams & the wider bioscience community.
www.rsb.org.uk/get-involved...
#apprenticeoftheyear #apprenticeships
The award recognises apprentices' contributions to their teams & the wider bioscience community.
www.rsb.org.uk/get-involved...
#apprenticeoftheyear #apprenticeships
May 19, 2025 at 8:34 AM
If you are, or know of, an apprentice working within the UK bioscience sector then apply for the RSB Apprentice of the Year Award!
The award recognises apprentices' contributions to their teams & the wider bioscience community.
www.rsb.org.uk/get-involved...
#apprenticeoftheyear #apprenticeships
The award recognises apprentices' contributions to their teams & the wider bioscience community.
www.rsb.org.uk/get-involved...
#apprenticeoftheyear #apprenticeships
🌳 Woodland owners and managers – our oaks need you.
This summer, assess 5+ trees and share the data via Forest Lab to support research into Acute Oak Decline.
Sign up 👉 www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/145159-...
This summer, assess 5+ trees and share the data via Forest Lab to support research into Acute Oak Decline.
Sign up 👉 www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/145159-...
Volunteers needed to help monitor health of oaks in new research project - Forest Research
www.forestresearch.gov.uk
May 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Encouraging to hear from Neil about the successes in his current #OPM project so far.
Neil Audsley from Fera presents "Alternative Control of Oak Processionary Moth"
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#ActionOak
#ActionOakPartnerEvent25
#PlantHealthScience
#PlantHealth
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#ActionOak
#ActionOakPartnerEvent25
#PlantHealthScience
#PlantHealth
May 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Encouraging to hear from Neil about the successes in his current #OPM project so far.
Nice to hear about what’s happening at CFP today at #ActionOakpartnerEvent @rbgkew.bsky.social
Louise Gathercole from the Centre for Forest Protection, @ForestProtectUK, presents "Oak Research at the Centre for Forest Protection"
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#ActionOak
#ActionOakPartnerEvent25
#PlantHealthScience
#PlantHealth
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#ActionOak
#ActionOakPartnerEvent25
#PlantHealthScience
#PlantHealth
May 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Nice to hear about what’s happening at CFP today at #ActionOakpartnerEvent @rbgkew.bsky.social
In interesting talk from Dan updating us with APHAs latest research in grey squirrel management @rbgkew.bsky.social
Dan Henderson from APHA, @APHAgovuk, presents "Managing grey squirrel numbers and the benefits to tree health".
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#ActionOak
#ActionOakPartnerEvent25
#PlantHealthScience
#PlantHealth
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#ActionOak
#ActionOakPartnerEvent25
#PlantHealthScience
#PlantHealth
May 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
In interesting talk from Dan updating us with APHAs latest research in grey squirrel management @rbgkew.bsky.social
Great to hear Sara’s presentation today at @rbgkew.bsky.social for the #actionoakpartnerevent25
Sara Redstone from @The_RHS presents "Biosecurity at the Royal Horticultural Society".
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#ActionOak
#ActionOakPartnerEvent25
#PlantHealthScience
#PlantHealth
#WomeninScience
#PlantBiosecurity
#RHS
#PlantHealthy
#Biosecurity
#RoyalHorticulturalSociety
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#ActionOak
#ActionOakPartnerEvent25
#PlantHealthScience
#PlantHealth
#WomeninScience
#PlantBiosecurity
#RHS
#PlantHealthy
#Biosecurity
#RoyalHorticulturalSociety
May 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Great to hear Sara’s presentation today at @rbgkew.bsky.social for the #actionoakpartnerevent25
Today is International Day of Plant Health. Did you know that 3 billion kg of air pollutants are removed by plants each year in the UK? Our health and that of our planet depend on the health of our plants.
#ActionOak
#PlantHealthWeek
#PlantHealth
#InternationalDayofPlantHealth
#ActionOak
#PlantHealthWeek
#PlantHealth
#InternationalDayofPlantHealth
May 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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#PlantHealthWeek: Survey key pests and pathogens! 🔬🦠
Explore IPSN’s new sampling protocols—developed with global partners —for step-by-step guidance, consistent sample collection & early detection support
📚 Download & put them in practice today: bgci.org/ipsn-samplin...
Explore IPSN’s new sampling protocols—developed with global partners —for step-by-step guidance, consistent sample collection & early detection support
📚 Download & put them in practice today: bgci.org/ipsn-samplin...
May 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
#PlantHealthWeek: Survey key pests and pathogens! 🔬🦠
Explore IPSN’s new sampling protocols—developed with global partners —for step-by-step guidance, consistent sample collection & early detection support
📚 Download & put them in practice today: bgci.org/ipsn-samplin...
Explore IPSN’s new sampling protocols—developed with global partners —for step-by-step guidance, consistent sample collection & early detection support
📚 Download & put them in practice today: bgci.org/ipsn-samplin...
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#PlantHealthWeek: Boost collection biosecurity!🛡️🌱
Promote best practices and keep staff & visitors informed with FREE training, info & signage resources from @green-goddess.bsky.social at the TreeHealthCenter & IPSN
Raise biosecurity awareness & protect plants!
👉 www.bgci.org/ipsn-publica...
Promote best practices and keep staff & visitors informed with FREE training, info & signage resources from @green-goddess.bsky.social at the TreeHealthCenter & IPSN
Raise biosecurity awareness & protect plants!
👉 www.bgci.org/ipsn-publica...
May 8, 2025 at 10:04 AM
#PlantHealthWeek: Boost collection biosecurity!🛡️🌱
Promote best practices and keep staff & visitors informed with FREE training, info & signage resources from @green-goddess.bsky.social at the TreeHealthCenter & IPSN
Raise biosecurity awareness & protect plants!
👉 www.bgci.org/ipsn-publica...
Promote best practices and keep staff & visitors informed with FREE training, info & signage resources from @green-goddess.bsky.social at the TreeHealthCenter & IPSN
Raise biosecurity awareness & protect plants!
👉 www.bgci.org/ipsn-publica...
Delighted to welcome this years @harperadamsuni.bsky.social Plant pathology MSc students to The Tree Health Centre at The Yorkshire Arboretum this morning for the longhorn beetle outbreak workshop.
#PlantHealthProfessionals🥼#PlantHealthWeek🌱
# PlantPathology🔬
#TreeHealth🌳
@cobwebdr.bsky.social
#PlantHealthProfessionals🥼#PlantHealthWeek🌱
# PlantPathology🔬
#TreeHealth🌳
@cobwebdr.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Delighted to welcome this years @harperadamsuni.bsky.social Plant pathology MSc students to The Tree Health Centre at The Yorkshire Arboretum this morning for the longhorn beetle outbreak workshop.
#PlantHealthProfessionals🥼#PlantHealthWeek🌱
# PlantPathology🔬
#TreeHealth🌳
@cobwebdr.bsky.social
#PlantHealthProfessionals🥼#PlantHealthWeek🌱
# PlantPathology🔬
#TreeHealth🌳
@cobwebdr.bsky.social
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A great (and busy) day of #PlantHealthWeek getting colleagues at Fera Science Ltd. to make fungi and spores on our stall to show them the wonders of Mycology. They made some superb models! 🍄👩🎨
May 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
A great (and busy) day of #PlantHealthWeek getting colleagues at Fera Science Ltd. to make fungi and spores on our stall to show them the wonders of Mycology. They made some superb models! 🍄👩🎨
⭐ The best way to protect our trees and forests for the future is to prepare. By planting for resilience we can ensure the best chance to resist pests, disease, and the effects of climate change.
The RFS provides Grants for Resilient Woodlands Find out more buff.ly/dP183U6
#PlantHealthWeek
The RFS provides Grants for Resilient Woodlands Find out more buff.ly/dP183U6
#PlantHealthWeek
May 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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It's #PlantHealthWeek and this year's focus is about appreciating the value plants provide to our society, understanding that we all have a responsibility and a role to play in protecting and keeping them healthy. 🌱🌳 #NationalHedgerowWeek
May 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
It's #PlantHealthWeek and this year's focus is about appreciating the value plants provide to our society, understanding that we all have a responsibility and a role to play in protecting and keeping them healthy. 🌱🌳 #NationalHedgerowWeek
📣 This #PlantHealthWeek we’re launching a new set of plant & tree health resources, created to support implementation of good biosecurity practices in botanic gardens and arboreta internationally.
🔗Download FREE: www.yorkshirearboretum.org/hub-print
@ipsn-bgci.bsky.social
#TreeHealthCentre #THC
🔗Download FREE: www.yorkshirearboretum.org/hub-print
@ipsn-bgci.bsky.social
#TreeHealthCentre #THC
May 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
📣 This #PlantHealthWeek we’re launching a new set of plant & tree health resources, created to support implementation of good biosecurity practices in botanic gardens and arboreta internationally.
🔗Download FREE: www.yorkshirearboretum.org/hub-print
@ipsn-bgci.bsky.social
#TreeHealthCentre #THC
🔗Download FREE: www.yorkshirearboretum.org/hub-print
@ipsn-bgci.bsky.social
#TreeHealthCentre #THC
📣 Exhibit A:
Michael Long PHP MRSB - most excellent role model for anyone looking at mycolgy 🍄diagnostics 🔍 and plant health 🌿career development 🤓
#PlantHealthWeek
Michael Long PHP MRSB - most excellent role model for anyone looking at mycolgy 🍄diagnostics 🔍 and plant health 🌿career development 🤓
#PlantHealthWeek
DYK our Plant Health Professional Register is for people working in a wide range of plant health & biosecurity roles? By joining you’d receive independent certification of your plant health competencies, professional standing & achievements.
More 👉 www.rsb.org.uk/careers-and-...
#PlantHealthWeek
More 👉 www.rsb.org.uk/careers-and-...
#PlantHealthWeek
May 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
📣 Exhibit A:
Michael Long PHP MRSB - most excellent role model for anyone looking at mycolgy 🍄diagnostics 🔍 and plant health 🌿career development 🤓
#PlantHealthWeek
Michael Long PHP MRSB - most excellent role model for anyone looking at mycolgy 🍄diagnostics 🔍 and plant health 🌿career development 🤓
#PlantHealthWeek
🌾 It’s #PlantHealthWeek! Think you’ve got what it takes to keep our plants healthy? Try our Plant Doctor quiz and prove it! 👩🔬🌿
💡 Learn, play, and celebrate plant health 👉 www.bspp.org.uk/plant-doctor...
#BSPP #PlantPathology #PlantsMatter
💡 Learn, play, and celebrate plant health 👉 www.bspp.org.uk/plant-doctor...
#BSPP #PlantPathology #PlantsMatter
May 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
#PlantHealthWeek: Stay ahead of emerging plant health threats!🛡️🐛🦠
Support your garden’s biosecurity by sharing IPSN's Organism Alert Posters🚨
Designed to raise awareness and support the rapid detection of new and emerging risks
⬇️Download and📍display them! www.bgci.org/resources/bg...
Support your garden’s biosecurity by sharing IPSN's Organism Alert Posters🚨
Designed to raise awareness and support the rapid detection of new and emerging risks
⬇️Download and📍display them! www.bgci.org/resources/bg...
May 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM