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A mystery disease hit South Africa's pine trees 40 years ago: new DNA technology has found the killer

An unidentified fungal killer swept through a South African pine plantation in the 1980s. Rodger ShagamIn the 1970s and 1980s, pine trees growing in various forestry plantations in South Africa’s Western Cape province began to die in patches. These trees succumbed to a mysterious root disease and the patches expanded gradually. Spontaneous regrowth of seedlings in the patches died dramatically. As in many other true crime dramas, the finger was initially pointed at the most likely suspect: the r ....

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