[APWG] Attacking Invasive Cheatgrass At the Root

[Lisa Feldkamp]

Hi,

I work for the Nature Conservancy’s Cool Green Science blog.

This week I covered some promising research by Ann Kennedy that is using native Washington State soil microbes to inhibit the growth of cheatgrass roots. This gives native plants a chance to compete and within about 3-5 years the cheatgrass is wiped out from the area: http://blog.nature.org/science/2016/09/07/attacking-invasive-cheatgrass-root-soil-microbes-biocontrol-sage/

Where they are able to successfully apply the bacteria, they’re finding that by year 3 there is a 50% reduction in cheatgrass. I thought that you would all be interested to learn more.

Cheers,
Lisa



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Lisa Feldkamp
Science Communications
The Nature Conservancy
lfeldkamp at tnc.org
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