CASABLANCA, Chile, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Down a dusty farm track in Chilean wine country, behind a wooden gate wrapped in chains, forestry experts are nursing a plantation of saplings whose bark holds ...

Chilean environmental scientist Jonathan Barichivich has been making waves in the dendrochronology community of late due to his study and findings regarding an alerce tree in Alerce Costero ...

The Chilean Wine Palm ... But once beheaded, over 100 gallons of the sap may seep from the trunk of the now dying and topless tree and can be boiled down to syrup or fermented into wine.

Ingrid Salgado examines a quillay tree, or soapbark (Quillaja saponaria), which is native to Chile and contains a substance that can be used in coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccines.

CAPE TOWN - The rare soapbark tree found in Chile has been found to produce important compounds that could boost the body's reaction vaccines possibly assisting the efficacy of the Covid-19 vaccine.

The medicinal secrets of the Chilean soapbark tree have been laid bare, unlocking a future of more potent, affordable, and sustainably sought vaccines. The evergreen species, Quillaja saponaria has, ...

Item 1 of 6 Ricardo San Martin, a Chilean expert on the Quillay soapbark tree and its industrial uses, counts the seeds on a soapbark tree growing in the wild on the campus of the University of ...

In the past, the tree was used to make a highly successful vaccine against shingles and the world’s first malaria vaccine. ... A Chilean tree holds hope for new vaccines — if supplies last ...

Ricardo San Martin, a Chilean expert on the quillay soapbark tree and its industrial uses, checks on the growth of year-old soapbark trees at the University of California in Berkeley in August.