Posted by: Sandy Steinman | April 20, 2022

Plants’ best friend: Pathogen-detecting dogs visit Presidio Nursery

Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy report

In 2020, researchers at UC Berkeley published findings that dogs had been able to sniff out Phytophthora, a microscopic plant pathogen that can be devastating to plants and entire ecosystems, with a 100% detection rate in a series of trials and blind tests.

Read story at  Plants’ best friend: Pathogen-detecting dogs visit Presidio Nursery | Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy


Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Categories

%d bloggers like this: