Destined for destruction — In some varieties of hazelnut trees, Eastern Filbert Blight can be easily identified by the telltale bumps, or pustules, it causes along the bark of the plant.
For decades, hazelnut growers across Oregon have battled a troubling, expensive, yield-trimming foe, only beginning to — slowly — turn the tide in their fight thanks to some new weapons developed by a research program at Oregon State University.
