Province invests $260,000 for forest research
By Nelson Daily Staff
The B.C. government is providing $260,000 to further research at Thompson Rivers University into parasitic plants that attack coniferous forests in B.C.
The funding award is being provided through the B.C. Knowledge Development Fund (BCKDF) and used to acquire an advanced scanning electron microscope for research dedicated to controlling dwarf mistletoe, a plant parasite that infects trees and in the case of lodgepole pine, makes the trees more susceptible to pine beetle infestations.
The BCKDF announcement matched funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and is added to other internal and external sources at TRU for a total research infrastructure investment of $666,333 for the purchase of a state-of- the-art Scanning Electron Microscope or SEM.
