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Ash dieback: How to fight diseases in trees

October 7th, 2014 at 17:00 clock Updated BST

An injection of trees help to ash dieback and other tree diseases could infect our forests?

In a test site on a prototype tested Northampton - a fungicide derived from garlic, injected directly into a shaft, and the system moves in the juice all target areas.

While widespread use is expensive and inconvenient - it could help save specific historical trees or trees with sentimental value.

Claire Marshall BBC raises a closer look at how to inject it into a tree.

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