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Goodbye Nematodes! Heat-Treating Southern Pine Lumber


This article is from Issue Spring 99 - Vol. 1 No. 2.

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Lumber is an important product produced from trees. The production of quality lumber is very important, especially when two countries are involved in exporting goods to one another. For this reason, the scientists in this study studied heat-treating techniques to kill the pinewood nematodes in the lumber.

Meet the scientists that contributed to this article:

"Science Topics" covered in this article:
  • Life Science
  • Technology and Science

"Environmental Topics" covered in this article:
  • Vegetation Management (Educators)
  • Vegetation Protection (Fire, Insects, Endangered Species) (Educators)

Regions covered in this article:
  • Southern

"Thinking About Science Themes" covered in this article:
Specific 'Thinking About Science'Themes:
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  »  Uses and Benefits of Science

"Thinking About the Environment Themes" covered in this article:

Specific 'Thinking About the Environment'Themes:
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Specific "Thinking About Science" Themes:
  • Scientific Topics
  • Uses and Benefits of Science

"Thinking About Environmental Themes" covered in this article:
Specific 'Thinking About the Environment'Themes:
  »  Parasites

Specific "Thinking About the Environment" Themes:
  • Parasites

NSE Standards covered in this article:
  • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry (A)
  • Understandings about scientific inquiry (A)