Pine wilt disease Archives

Drones and AI Take Over for Humans in Forestry Work

DAEJEON, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Drones and artificial intelligence will do the work of humans in scouring the nation’s forests and identifying dead trees caused by pine wilt disease. The Korea Forestry Promotion Institute has developed artificial intelligence which employs an algorithm that can accurately pinpoint objects 10 centimeters tall from a single bird’s [...]

SNU Researchers Use Pheromones to Ward Off Pine Tree Killer Disease

SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of Seoul National University researchers have successfully conducted a field test in which extracted male pheromones from the longhorn beetle were used to limit the spread of pine wilt disease. Also referred to informally as “Pine Tree AIDS” for its deadly and near-untreatable nature, pine wilt disease [...]