Research

Teagasc Research Projects:

• Ash resistance to ash dieback - Development of ash tree genetic resources with resistance to ash dieback (Chalara) and breeding technologies
• Ash restructuring - Group selection and underplanting of ash stands to mitigate ash dieback – see flyer
• Broadleaf Silviculture Project - Investigating the establishment and management of broadleaf crops

Useful websites:

• Forestry Commission of Great Britain: Chalara ash dieback website
• FRAXBACK website (FPS COST Action FP1103)

Relevant publications:

• Plumb, William J., Timothy LR Coker, Jonathan J. Stocks, Paul Woodcock, Christopher P. Quine, Miguel Nemesio‐Gorriz, Gerry C. Douglas, Laura J. Kelly, and Richard JA Buggs. "The viability of a breeding programme for ash in the British Isles in the face of ash dieback." Plants, People, Planet 2, no. 1 (2020): 29-40.
• Nemesio-Gorriz, Miguel, Brian McGuinness, Jim Grant, Luke Dowd, and Gerry C. Douglas. "Lenticel infection in Fraxinus excelsior shoots in the context of ash dieback." iForest-Biogeosciences and Forestry 12, no. 2 (2019): 160.
• Short, I. and Hawe, J. 2018. Ash dieback in Ireland – A review of European management options and case studies in remedial silviculture. Irish Forestry 75 (1&2): 44-72. 
• Ash Dieback on the island of Ireland, A.R. MCCRACKEN, G.C. DOUGLAS, C. RYAN, M. DESTEFANIS, L.R. COOKE. R. Vasaitis & R. Enderle (eds), Dieback of European Ash (Fraxinus spp.): Consequences and Guidelines for Sustainable Management, 125 – 139 (PDF). 
• Ash Dieback in Europe - Vegetative Propagation of dieback-tolerant Fraxinus excelsior on commercial scale, G.C. DOUGLAS, J.M. NAMARA, K. O’CONNELL, L. DUNNE, J. GRANT. R. Vasaitis & R. Enderle (eds), Dieback of European Ash (Fraxinus spp.): Consequences and Guidelines for Sustainable Management, 288 – 299 (PDF).
• Summary reports from European expert meetings:
  • European Workshop Meeting on Chalara Denmark 2017 (PDF), 23-25 August 2017, Skovskolen, Denmark.
  • European Workshop Meeting on Chalara, Dubrovnik 2015 (PDF), 12-16 April 2015, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
  • European Workshop Meeting on Chalara, Palanga 2014 (PDF), 16-18 September 2014, Palanga, Lithuania.
  • European Workshop Meeting on Chalara, London 2013 (PDF), 29 November 2013, Linnean Society, London, UK. The video presentations can be viewed here.
  • European Workshop Meeting on Chalara, Vilnius 2012 (PDF), 13-14 November 2012, Vilnius, Lithuania.