The elm tree can return to the British countryside ... who have been working behind the scenes to cross elite elms with British native species to get a tree with the familiar shape and form.
This has entrenched the public perception of elm as a lost species. While I grew up in the countryside surrounded by trees I had always believed that the elms were gone. It was another fungal ...
A new strain has been created by crossing a British elm growing in Kent with a tree that contained disease-resistant genes from an Asian species. Professor Richard Buggs, senior research leader at ...