Present experiments were conducted to determine the possibility of artificial culture with various sawdust of P. gilvus. The pH value was 6.0 of oak sawdust, 6.5 of mulberry sawdust, 6.6 of elm sawdust, 6.3 of acacia sawdust and 6.1 of apple tree sawdust. Mycelial density on elm sawdust and acacia sawdust were lower than those of oak sawdust, and apple sawdust. Weight of fresh fruiting body sho...

We set up a free-air ozone (O(3)) exposure system for determining the photosynthetic responses of Siebold's beech (Fagus crenata) and oak (Quercus mongolica var. crispula) to O(3) under field conditions. Ten-year-old saplings of beech and oak were exposed to an elevated O(3) concentration (60 nmol mol(-1)) during daytime from 6 August to 11 November 2011. Ozone significantly reduced the net pho...

There is often an inverse relationship between the diversity of a plant community and the invasibility of that community by non-native plants. Native herbivores that colonize novel plants may contribute to diversity-invasibility relationships by limiting the relative success of non-native plants. Here, we show that, in large collections of non-native oak trees at sites across the USA, non-nativ...

Co-Investigators: Alex Beliaeve, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Carolyn Bertozzi, University of California, Berkeley; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Inna Dubchak, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Matthew Fields, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Hoi-Ying Holman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Ja...

From 2009–2011, we assessed the impact of the goldspotted oak borer, Agrilus auroguttatus Schaeffer, or its sibling species, Agrilus coxalis Waterhouse, at locations in southern California (denoted infested: ICA and uninfested: UCA), southeastern Arizona (AZ), and southern Mexico (MX). Our surveys examined forest composition of oak woodlands; the degree of injury and proportion of oaks infested...

Large wood of oak trees (Quercus spp.) has resided in the streams and sediments of north Missouri, USA for many thousands of years. This wood affords the opportunity to compare a chronosequence of differences in wood density over a very long period. We analyzed the relationship between the age (residence time) and density of heartwood from oak boles using tree-ring and 14C dating methods and di...

ferroelectric Rama K. Vasudevan, Shujun Zhang, Jilai Ding, M. Baris Okatan, Stephen Jesse, Sergei V. Kalinin, and Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA and Institute for Functional Imaging of Materials, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA Department of Materials Science and Enginee...

Atranol and chloroatranol are strong contact allergens in oak moss absolute, a lichen extract used in perfumery. Fifteen subjects with contact allergy to oak moss absolute underwent a repeated open application test (ROAT) using solutions of an untreated oak moss absolute (sample A) and an oak moss absolute with reduced content of atranol and chloroatranol (sample B). All subjects were in additi...

Sudden Oak Death” (Phytophthora ramorum) is a non-indigenous forest pathogen which causes substantial mortality of coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia) and several other oak tree species on the Pacific Coast of the United States. We estimated the time path of residential property values subject to oak mortality using a dataset that spans more than two decades—including a decade of transactions be...