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Risk Assessment & Ecosystem Impacts (Theme 3)
We need to understand kauri dieback and myrtle rust better if we want to protect our ngahere (forest). That’s why the goal of the Risk Assessment & Ecosystem Impacts team is... -
Conservation & Restoration (Theme 7)
It’s a huge challenge to conserve and restore kauri and native plants vulnerable to myrtle rust for future generations. It requires knowledge of multiple stages of the life... -
Mobilising for Action (Theme 2)
Data and resources relating to Theme 2: Mobilising for Action -
Oranga (Theme 1)
Māori worldviews are essential for establishing priorities and allowing the co-production of knowledge in response to threats to taonga rākau (treasured tree) species. In the... -
Myrtle Rust Science Stocktake
A list of past and current research focused on biology, impacts and management of myrtle rust (Austropuccinia psidii). Builds on work previously undertaken by the BioHeritage... -
Control, Protect, Cure (Theme 5)
The myrtle rust and kauri dieback spaces desperately need a suite of fully integrated management tools and approaches to saving our ngahere (forest). To this end, Ngā Rākau... -
Host Pathogen and Environment (Theme 6)
This research theme is focusing on the ‘disease triangle’: host susceptibility, the pathogen and the right environment for disease expression. Plants and pathogens can both be... -
Integrated Surveillance (Theme 4)
Many of our native species are slowly and silently tracking towards extinction. In order to reverse the decline of our natural bioheritage, we must be able to ‘see it’.... -
Optimising methods for screening the susceptibility of host species populatio...
Technical report of findings for the design of a protocol to test variation in resistance to myrtle rust using cuttings and establish an experiment using nursery... -
Kauri Dieback Science Stocktake
A list of past and current research focused on biology, impacts and management of kauri dieback (Phytophthora agathidicida). Builds on work previously undertaken by the... -
Vulnerability of New Zealand Myrtaceae species to natural infection by Austro...
Report from Myrtle Rust Biology contract. Beresford R, Soewarto J, Somchit C, Hasna L, Ramos Romero L. October 2021.Vulnerability of New Zealand Myrtaceae species to natural... -
Nga Rakau Taketake - Animation
Animation introducing Nga Rakau Takeke, and Myrtle Rust and Kauri dieback