Longevity without ageing: the strategy of the trees
The mystery of ageing has proven one of the greatest challenges for the human mind (Brutovská et al., 2013). Among the oldest organisms, trees represent the most easily visible to the...
Read MoreThe mystery of ageing has proven one of the greatest challenges for the human mind (Brutovská et al., 2013). Among the oldest organisms, trees represent the most easily visible to the...
Read MoreIn 2020 UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Development launched an initiative called Cultiv@te, a global innovation challenge with the aim of surfacing technological and innovative solutions to...
Read MoreWhat is a tree? We all know how to recognize a tree, even from far away and from the tender age. When asked to give a formal definition, however, often all...
Read More"The Mycorrhizal World", seminar at Barcham Trees Plc, Cambridgeshire (UK). On 10 July 2019 Prof. Lucio Montecchio held a seminar on the biology and behaviour of mycorrhizal symbioses, with insights...
Read MoreOn the occasion of the "Award Ceremony Best FSE Project" (6 November 2019, Botanical Garden of Padua), the FSE Project 2105-30-11-2018 "This is (not) just a tree" received the "Creative...
Read MoreWhat are lichens? Lichens are unique organisms. They are a symbiotic association between a fungus and an alga. More precisely the term "alga" indicates whether a cyanobacterium (Cyanobacteria) or a green...
Read MoreIn the common imagination, each tree is seen as a distinct entity, which competes with contiguous plants for space, light, water and nutrients. This traditional conception is radically changing and...
Read MoreIn 2013, in some plantations of black walnuts in the province of Vicenza (Italy), the symptoms of Thousand Cankers Disease (TCD) were detected. TCD is a disease that can kill...
Read MoreThe CIRPAM (Centro interdipartimentale di ricerca per il restauro, il recupero e la valorizzazione dei parchi storici e degli alberi monumentali) and PAN/De Rebus Plantarum organize the conference "Monumental trees...
Read MoreStudy Workshop "Soil Health & Tree Disease": il resoconto in ARB Magazine ...
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