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Description: Boxwood Blight Insight Group (BBIG) is a research team dedicated to protecting boxwood plants from blight disease. Learn how to diagnose and manage boxwood blight with our solutions.

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Boxwood Blight Insight Group (BBIG) is a team of scientists working together on an USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture – Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) project, in partnership with stakeholders and international collaborators. This transdisciplinary team and its partners aim to safeguard boxwood—the nation’s #1 evergreen ornamental shrub crop—from blight disease, thus saving an iconic plant featured in American landscapes since 1653.

Boxwood blight was first reported from the United Kingdom and New Zealand in the 1990s. The disease has since devastated boxwood production and gardens in Europe, western Asian, and North America. The first epidemics of this destructive disease in the United States were reported from North Carolina and Connecticut, followed by Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Virginia in 2011. As of September 1, 2020, this disease has spread via contaminated nursery stocks to twenty-two other stat

Boxwood blight, although on the rise in the U.S. over the past 10 years, can still be mitigated. This iconic evergreen ornamental shrub and cornerstone landscape plant can be saved if farmers and retailers are enabled to produce and sell only blight-free plant stocks and landscapers to practice strict sanitation between job sites, while consumers and homeowners are empowered to identify and better manage the disease at sites of contamination. 

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