Tri-Valley Herald: The fight to save California's emblematic oaks from disease is gaining momentum as scientists decipher the genetic code of the microbe responsible for sudden oak death. Sudden oak death has killed more than 1 million oak trees in 14 counties along the California and Oregon coast since it was first reported a decade ago. The Energy Department's Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek and an army of other institutions have discovered that the pathogens that cause soybean root rot ...
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