Its a deadly fungal tree disease called ash dieback thats swept across europe and could wipe out most of the ash trees in britain. Now Scientists Say theres new hope after a team from the Royal Botanic Gardens kew identified the genes that provide resistance to ash dieback. It means trees could be bred that are unaffected by the epidemic. Our science correspondent Rebecca Morelle reports. The stunning colours of autumn revealing the richness of our forests, but theyre under threat. In 2012, ash dieback arrived in the uk from europe, where its already ravaged woodlands. Its caused by a fungus that kills the ash trees it attacks. One of the classic symptoms of ash dieback is a darkened lesion on the bark of the tree, and we can see this long diamond shaped lesion where the fungus has grown into the tree. But, by studying these trees, researchers have discovered a very small proportion are resistant to the disease and theyve now pinpointed the genes that fight off the fungus. It does give
To be very slick come tomorrow night and really the rest of your time on into thanksgiving. So today is a better day for travel than the rest of the week is going to offer recommend if you do have the chance today why not take to the roads. Avoid any chance of slipping on the roads, especially up in the sierra 30s and 40s for your current temperatures across most of the bay the ways we do have a 51 degrees right now in San Francisco. Later today, youre going to be looking at daytime highs into a range of 60s so a similar one s to yesterday and really comfortable afternoon. One of her last days in the 60s and this forecast, ill talk more about what to expect in your holiday forecast still to come back to robin all right, thank you john, lets check in on. On traffic now we want to take a peek at the bay bridge. And im just getting word of a stalled garbage truck this is westbound just west of the center anchorage. Blocking the right lane so looks like crews are heading over to check it o
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In the wake of his bbc interview. And new hope as scientists try to save britains ash trees from being virtually wiped out by a fungal disease thats swept europe. And coming up in the sport in the next half an hour on bbc news the english and european rugby champions saracens will not challenge their 35 point deduction and £5 million fine for breaking the salary cap. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Hundreds of Anti Government protestors are trapped inside a university in hong kong as a stand off with police intensifies. Some have managed to escape under a volley of rubber bullets and tear gas. Police have surrounded the campus for a week now and its thought up to 500 are still inside, some armed with petrol bombs. The past week has seen some of the most violent protests since they began injune in response to plans to allow some criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland china. Critics feared it could undermine the territorys freedoms. Those plans were withdrawn in