USDA Approves $1.3 Million to Study Christmas Tree Rot
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved $1.3 million in funds for research on “Christmas tree rot,” Campus Reform learned on Monday.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved $1.3 million in funding to study “Christmas tree rot.”
A team of scientists, led by Dr. Gary Chastagner of Washington State University, plan to deploy the federal funds over the next five years to identify trees with genetic traits resistant to Phytophthora, a fungus that plagues some firs.
