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

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• Drusas@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  From the abstract:

  These cultures were identified as the pyrophillic pathogen Rhizina undulata, well-known to cause patch death of conifers in South Africa and elsewhere in the world. While the patches of dying trees no longer exist and the disease cannot be newly studied, it is most likely that the tree death originally thought to be caused by L. serpens was due primarily to R. undulata.

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