This investment will incorporate research from across Ngā Rākau Taketake, with an emphasis on novel tools and approaches.

Looking into the role environmental factors play on disease expression and severity, as well as investigating plant pathogen genomes.

This research team are developing standardised measures to quantify the impact both kauri dieback and myrtle rust are having on the wider ecosystem.

Ensuring susceptible plant species survive myrtle rust and kauri dieback.

A hapū-centric surveillance framework that focuses on the holistic health of the forest.

Focusing on the human dimensions of forest health management, specifically kauri dieback and myrtle rust.

Mātauranga Māori based solutions for kauri dieback and myrtle rust

A list of past and current research focussed on biology, impacts and management of myrtle rust is now available. This…

Researchers are using genome mining to develop poisons that will exclusively target possums on a massive scale.