This week we launched field work on our forest demonstration sites at SW Finland! #ClimateAdaptation solutions and roadmaps coming up for end-users through our #Precilience #EuHorizon project @luke.fi

Gremmeniella abietina digging into its porridge 🍽️ Trying to coax it into sporulating for our plant protection trials! Seems like it’s loving this substrate - growing well! #mätäs #surmakka #versosurma #scotspine @luke.fi

Great fieldtrip in Estonia with our #precilience consortium #eu #horizon #climateadaptation amazing people, amazing project.

Fungi of the day! Gremmeniella abietina! Woken up from minus 80 degrees (from quite old collection). Luckily we have excellent strain collevtion, as it seems to be difficult to find in the forest nowadays. #forestpathology #mätäs #metsäpatologia #versosurma @luke.fi

Our Trichoderma screening against pathogens is well underway! So many strains and species to test - placing high bets on discovering a new biocontrol champ! #MÄTÄS #nursery @luke.fi @annapoimala.bsky.social #metsäpatologiseikkailee

Today, we kicked off experiments with some *top-secret* ingredients to explore novel alternatives to chemical plant protection in nurseries. Will they be game-changers??? Stay tuned for results! #MÄTÄS @luke.fi @annapoimala.bsky.social #birch #phytophthora

Spring has arrived in our lab! We’ve woken up the birch seedlings for our ”MÄTÄS” project, testing new alternatives to chemical plant protection against Phytophthora! #forestpathology #nurseryproduction #healthyseedlings #mixedforest @luke.fi