The 12th of May is the UN International Day of Plant Health, an opportunity to raise awareness on the importance of plant health in our daily lives. Many celebrations occur every year all over the world.

In 2020 the Plant Health TV video contest was organized by the International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM-Bari) and the Euphresco network for phytosanitary research coordination and funding. 

The video, prepared by Richard Buggs, explains how ash dieback is going to have a devastating effect on the British landscape. Research is ongoing to understand how variants in the DNA of ash trees give some of them resistance to ash dieback. We are also asking whether natural selection is already acting to generate more resistant trees in nature. This research gives us optimism about the future of ash populations in Europe.