"Bikin cikar Cocin 'yan'uwa shekara 300 a shekara ta 2008"
(Afrilu 15, 2008) - Shekaru biyu bayan Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ya rubuta game da "Bishiyar chestnut mai yaduwa" a cikin waƙarsa mai suna "The Village Blacksmith," da yawa daga cikin itatuwan ƙirjin na Amurka a duk faɗin ƙasar sun mutu ko suna mutuwa daga wata cuta. Kolejin Juniata yana taka rawa kadan wajen ƙoƙarin dawo da nau'ikan ta hanyar ƙirƙirar "gird" a cikin harabar. Juniata Cocin ne na kwalejin 'yan'uwa a Huntingdon, Pa.
Yayin da kwalejin ba ta da "smithy ƙauye" don sanya bishiyoyin chestnut kusa, tana da yanki mai ciyawa a bayan Cibiyar Ilimi ta Brumbaugh. A nan ne Uma Ramakrishnan, mataimakiyar farfesa a fannin kimiyyar muhalli, za ta kula da wani fili mai murabba'in murabba'in 25,000 (dan fiye da rabin kadada) na bishiyoyi 120 a cikin aikin haɗin gwiwa tsakanin kwalejin da gidauniyar Chestnut ta Amurka. A ƙarshe kwalejin za ta ƙara wasu bishiyoyi 90.
Ramakrishnan ya ce "Za a yi amfani da gonar noma don bincike kan abubuwa da dama da suka shafi chestnut na Amurka, da kuma sauran nau'in chestnut," in ji Ramakrishnan. "Za mu sami nau'ikan ƙirji da yawa a cikin gonar lambu kuma da fatan wannan zai zama wurin da ba za mu iya yin bincike kawai ba, har ma da kawo azuzuwan daga makarantun sakandare da na firamare."
Ramakrishnan ya ce kwalejin za ta dasa tsire-tsire masu iri kusan 120 a ranar 3 ga Afrilu ko kuma a kusa. Za a yi fasalin gonar gonar ba bisa ka'ida ba kuma za a dasa a kusa da Paul Hickes Observatory.
A wannan shekara, kwalejin za ta dasa nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'in nau'in nau'in nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'in nau'in nau'in nau'in nau'in nau'in nau'in nau'in nau'in nau'in nau'in nut) za su dasa: Chetsnut na kasar Sin, nau'in kirji na Amurka (wanda ya ketare da cutar kirjin kasar Sin), da kuma kirjin Turai. "Muna kuma so mu dasa kirjin Jafananci da Chinquapin, nau'in nau'in chestnut, a shekara mai zuwa," in ji Ramakrishnan.
Da zarar an dasa bishiyoyin, Ramakrishnan da tawagar daliban kimiyyar muhalli na Juniata za su sanya ido kan tsayawar bishiyoyi, maganin kashe kwari da fungicides, haifuwa, samar da goro, da sauran abubuwan.
Kafin 1900, chestnut na Amurka yana ɗaya daga cikin manyan itatuwan katako a cikin dazuzzuka na Amurka, ana amfani da su don kayan daki, katako, da sauran kayayyaki. Bishiyoyin sun girma cikin sauƙi ƙafa 100 zuwa 150 kuma suna iya kaiwa ƙafa 10 a diamita. Bayan karni na arni, masana ilmin halittu sun lura cewa ƙwanƙarar ƙirji tana fama da ciwon ƙirji, cuta da naman gwari na haushi na Asiya ke haifarwa. An bullo da cutar ne ta hanyar goro daga kasar Sin da ake shigowa da su, wadanda kuma har yanzu ba su da karfin kamuwa da cutar. A cikin shekaru goma ko biyu, biliyoyin ƙirji na Amurka sun mutu. An kiyasta cewa kashi 25 cikin XNUMX na gandun dajin Appalachian sun ƙunshi ƙudan zuma.
Ramakrishnan, masanin halittun daji ne ta hanyar horo, kuma asalinsa Rick Entriken, wakilin gida na gidauniyar Chestnut ta Amurka. Entriken ya ba da gudummawar iri don aikin kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin mai ba da shawara ga girma chestnut. Har ila yau, yana kula da gonar noma a kusa da tafkin Raystown don Rundunar Sojojin Amurka.
Kulawa da bincike na gonar lambu za su fara a hannun Ashley Musgrove, babban ɗalibi daga Cumberland, Md. Za ta yi bincike da aiwatar da hanyoyin da za a kare bishiyoyi daga barewa, da kuma aiki tare da tawagar wasu dalibai don gudanar da ayyukan. gonar lambu.
–John Wall shine darektan huldar yada labarai na Kwalejin Juniata.
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