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Courtesy of the Forestry Commission via Wikimedia Commons. Scientists know little about a fatal oak tree disease that has cropped up increasingly in recent years. Acute oak decline (AOD) first appeared in the United Kingdom (U.K.) 20 to 30 years ago; however, it seems to be on the rise. The disease causes mature oak […] Ash dieback symptoms. Courtesy of WTPL/Mike Ryder. Scientists are fighting back against a deadly ash tree fungus on the genetic level. The first genetic information from a tree known as tree 35 that survived an outbreak of the deadly fungus that causes ash dieback in Denmark has been sequenced by researchers in the United […] Courtesy of the USDA Steam cleaning might just be what the doctor ordered for sick oak trees. Researchers at Dominican University in California have found a way to use steam sterilization to fight Phytophthora ramorum – a highly virulent pathogen that causes sudden oak death, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. P. ramorum kills […] |
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