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Discovery of a fourth evolutionary lineage of Phytophthora ramorum: EU2.
Fungal biology - 1 Nov 2012
Van Poucke Kris, Franceschini Selma, Webber Joan F, Vercauteren Annelies, Turner Judith A, McCracken Alistair R, Heungens Kurt, Brasier Clive M
Abstract excerpt
Phytophthora ramorum is a recently introduced, aggressive Phytophthora species that has caused extensive mortality of oak and tanoak trees in the western USA and Japanese larch trees in the UK. P. ramorum is also present on Rhododendron, Camellia, and Viburnum in the nursery industry, which is thought to have been the pathway for its spread into new geographic regions including forests and natural ecosystems....
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