Tree health and protection services

Laboratory-based diagnostic services, computer-based decision support systems, treatment services, herbicidal and other products.

Resources

• Herbicide Advisor
  Web-based expert system to advise on the relative efficacy of different herbicides for scenarios with a mix of weed and crop species, at varying times of the year.
• Hylobius Management Support System
  Decision support system to help foresters predict and reduce damage and costs due to large pine weevil, Hylobius abietis.
• PG Suspension
  A biological control agent for Heterobasidion annosum (formerly known as Fomes annosus).
• TimberTherm™
  A software tool to optimise the heat treatment of timber.

Services

• Pesticides efficacy testing
  Provision of quality assured field trials of new and existing pesticides under strictly controlled environmental conditions.
• Tree Health Diagnostic and Advisory Service
  Nationwide diagnosis, identification and advice on tree diseases.