The Dogwood
It's Time to Plant Dogwood Trees
October 21st, 2007
UT researchers credited with saving dogwoods
October 19th, 2007
From this week's News Senitnel Business Journal:
Two University of Tennessee plant pathologists whose work with disease-resistant dogwood trees has revitalized the state's nursery industry are the 2007 recipients of the university's most prestigious award for entrepreneurship.
Robert Trigiano and Mark Windham will share the Wheeley Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer, which recognizes scientific achievement coupled with entrepreneurial accomplishments. Both men are researchers in the UT Institute of Agriculture's Tennessee Experiment Station and teach in the UT College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.
In the mid-1990s, Trigiano and Windham discovered a single anthracnose-resistant dogwood in Catoctin National Park near Camp David in Maryland. Subsequent research showed that the saplings they cultivated from that original tree are capable of surviving the disease. They named the cultivar "Appalachian Spring," and 19 nurseries in Tennessee and Oregon have now licensed it for sale nationwide.
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