Eastern filbert blight (EFB), caused by the fungus Anisogramma anomala, remains one of the primary challenges for hazelnut cultivation, particularly affecting European hazelnut (Corylus avellana) ...

Eastern filbert blight, a fungal pathogen that kills hazelnut trees, first made its way to the Northwest in the 1960s. Since then, farmers have managed the fungus by pruning infected trees and ...

The 8,000 hazelnut trees that once stood on Agassiz’s Canadian Hazelnut farm have been reduced to mulch after they were infected with Eastern Filbert Blight, a fungus that has made its way north from ...

Oregon farmers will soon be able to plant hazelnut trees with a new genetic source of Eastern Filbert Blight resistance than they’ve traditionally relied on. Oregon State University recently obtained ...

I enjoyed your paper's extensive coverage of the great success of hazelnut breeding for disease resistance to eastern filbert blight. (Sunday, Sept. 25) However, it was disappointing that I found no ...

Researchers are hunting down the origins and extent of the outbreak of a new Eastern Filbert Blight strain that overcomes the disease resistance bred into Oregon hazelnut trees. Meanwhile, farmers are ...