BBC News Luxulyan Valley study into Phytophthora kernoviae plant disease BBC. Rhododendron
The disease is found in bilberry shrubs, rhododendrons and beech trees.
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A recent review published in Nature argues that nascent fungal infections will cause increasing attrition of biodiversity, with wider implications for human and ecosystem health, unless steps are taken to tighten biosecurity worldwide.
The past two decades have seen an increasing number of virulent infectious diseases in natural populations and managed landscapes. In both animals and plants, an unprecedented number of fungal and fungal-like diseases have recently caused some of the most severe die-offs and extinctions ever witnessed in wild species, and are jeopardizing food security. Human activity is intensifying fungal disease dispersal by modifying natural environments and thus creating new opportunities for evolution.
Fisher MC, Henk DA, Briggs CJ, Brownstein JS, Madoff LC, McCraw SL, Gurr SJ (2012) Emerging fungal threats to animal, plant and ecosystem health.- Nature Volume: 484, Pages: 186–194. DOI: doi:10.1038/nature10947 Delete the scoop?
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