Just one more ash dieback spore could push European ash trees to the brink

(Earlham Institute) Europe's ash dieback epidemic could well have been caused by just one or two mushroom-like fruiting bodies of a fungal pathogen from Asia, according to a comprehensive genome sequencing effort published in Nature Ecology& Evolution. This leaves even the most resistant ash trees at threat from the introduction of just one more spore from East Asia.
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