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UConn scientist develops sterile variety of burning bush

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Scientific breakthrough could help restore the popular ornamental shrub Euonymus alatus, otherwise known as burning bush, to prominence in commercial marketplace.

Professor Yi Li's Laboratory in the University of Connecticut's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources has developed a seedless variety of the popular ornamental shrub Euonymus alatus, also called 'burning bush,' that retains the plant's brilliant foliage yet eliminates its ability to spread
and invade natural habitats.

Read the press release, http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-08/uoc-usd081511.php .

 


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