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KETTERING \u2014 A few years ago, it was a foregone conclusion that Ohio\u2019s millions of ash trees would fall to the emerald ash borer.<\/p>\n
Losing them to the insect or cutting them down in advance of the inevitable are no longer the only options.<\/p>\n
Wright State University is a partner in a long-term research project seeking a more permanent solution than temporary pesticides \u2014 breeding an American tree that resists the borer the way China\u2019s less-desirable Manchurian ash does.<\/p>\n
Don Cipollini, a professor of biological sciences at WSU, said the U.S. Forestry Service, Ohio State and Michigan State universities also are part of an effort that eventually may allow partial restoration of the North American ash.<\/p>\n
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