UM Researcher Finds Genetic Differences in Trees Untouched by Mountain Pine Beetles UM Researcher Finds Genetic Differences in Trees Untouched by Mountain Pine Beetles
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August 22, 2018
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UM Professor Diana Six collects a core sample from a study site.
MISSOULA – A University of Montana researcher has discovered that mountain pine beetles may avoid certain trees within a population they normally would kill due to genetics in the trees.
UM Professor Diana Six made the discovery after studying mature whitebark and lodgepole trees that were the age and size that mountain pine beetle prefer, but had somehow escaped attack during the recent out...
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