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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Bradford pear trees are a common landscape tree in yards across Kentucky. A cultivar of the Callery pear species, the spring-flowering trees are stunning in bloom but have a smell commonly compared to “dead fish.” These trees’ offspring, the invasive Callery pear, can also take over old fields and roadside vegetation, and even invade higher quality natural areas. The University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment and their partners are working to help remedy these problems for landowners through an upcoming tree replacement program. UK College of […]
ITHACA, N.Y. — Steven Vincent Beer ’65, whose work to discover the fundamental mechanisms of plant bacterial disease and immunity still serves as a foundation for research to protect the world’s apples, pears and many other plants, died Jan. 12 in Ithaca. He was 81. Beer, professor emeritus of plant pathology and plant-microbe biology in the […]