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SUMMARY:AHB Wednesday Webinar: Endophytes
DESCRIPTION:Poplar for Biofuels: Endophytes to Increase Sustainability and Disease Resistance \n \nTo attend register at http://breeze.wsu.edu/e4hmzm4ei41/event/registration.html. \nAdvanced Hardwood Biofuels Northwest presents research with endophytes that is designed to improve the sustainability of poplar-based biofuel and bioproduct production.  Endophytes are beneficial microorganisms that live fully within plants without causing disease.  Although endophytes are present in most poplar trees\, addition of specific endophyte strains from native poplar can have pronounced impacts on the growth and health of cultivated poplar varieties.  Endophytes have the potential to increase plant growth and disease resistance with fewer inputs.  \nThese natural symbionts can provide multiple benefits to the host plant such as fixing atmospheric nitrogen gas into ammonia fertilizer\, solubilizing phosphate in the rhizosphere making this essential macronutrient available\, producing phytohormones that promote plant growth\, and increasing drought tolerance.  In addition\, endophytes can also alter disease outcomes in their host plants. \nWhat’s covered?   \n\nAn introduction to endophytes\nHow endophytes isolated from wild poplar and willow can improve the growth and health of poplar as well as other plants.\nThe range of effects endophytes can have on Melampsora rust\, a major pathogen of poplar in plantation settings.\n\nWhen: Wednesday\, March 26 | 10:00 – 11:00 am PDT \nWho should attend? Extension educators\, potential landowners/growers\, environmental scientists and professionals\, ag and natural resource professionals\, poplar and bioenergy researchers\, and biomass producers. \nPresenters: Sharon Doty\, University of Washington and Posy Busby\, University of Washington and University of Idaho. \nSponsored by:  Washington State University with funding from Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Competitive Grant no. 2011-68005-30407 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). \nHow to access the webinar:  \nPlease register for this webinar at http://breeze.wsu.edu/e4hmzm4ei41/event/registration.html. \nOn the day of the event\, you can access the webinar at http://breeze.wsu.edu/growinggreen/. \n 
URL:https://hardwoodbiofuels.org/event/poplar-for-biofuels-endophytes-to-increase-sustainability-and-disease-resistance/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Nora%20Haider":MAILTO:nora.haider@wsu.edu
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