Workers apply Funga’s wild fungal extract to loblolly pine seedlings at a commercial tree nursery in the southern US. The company treated about one in 40 of all loblolly pines planted across the south ...

WASHINGTON PARISH, La. (WGNO) — The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is working to restore longleaf pine trees in Bogue Chitto State Park. According to the LDWF, longleaf pine forests ...

Commercial wood fiber substrates have been produced primarily from conifer, or softwood, tree species since their introduction several decades ago. Globally, the most common softwoods used include ...

Remaking a forest requires a lot of seeds, and in 2025 things were starting to look dire as the longleaf pine seed supply dwindled across the Southeast. The U.S. Forest Service published its annual ...

Abstract: Phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) is a key enzyme of the phenylpropanoid pathway. PAL genes are less extensively studied in gymnosperms than angiosperms. Our interest in the PAL genes in ...

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - A Pine Belt bakery sold out of king cakes within an hour on Wednesday morning after setting up shop on the Mississippi Coast. Loblolly Bakery sold king cakes outside The ...

The demand for new energy sources is growing and awakening interest in the use of forest residues. Charcoal was prepared at carbonization temperatures of 500 ºC, 600 °C and 700 °C in order to evaluate ...

Weyerhaeuser WY-0.94%decrease; red down pointing triangle, America’s largest private landowner, said it has launched a venture to turn runty trees and sawdust from its fleet of mills into a ...

MONTICELLO, Ark. — A fungal disease infecting South Arkansas's pine forests has had forest health experts on high alert. It's called brown spot needle blight, and it infects pine needles, leading to ...

MONTICELLO, Ark. - Forest health experts from the University of Arkansas at Monticello have identified brown spot needle blight on loblolly pine in 11 additional counties in Arkansas this year, ...

Tale of two stands: at right stand with blight vs. unaffected stand of trees on left, taken in Mississippi by John Riggins of Oregon State University. MONTICELLO, Ark. — Forest health experts from the ...