dutch elm disease

Dutch elm disease

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Synopsis: 5. medicine & health: 1. diseases: Diseases: Plant diseases: Dutch elm disease:

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Evidences given by the authors suggest that M. mali was introduced probably during the breeding program on Elms against the Dutch elm disease (DED) during

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The research shows that the experience of widespread death of trees similar to that seen from Dutch elm disease

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and Sickkids Research Institute announced today that they have mapped successfully the genes in the fungus that causes Dutch elm disease.

Essentially Dutch elm disease is caused by a fungus that prevents the normal distribution of nutrients in the tree by blocking the flow of sap said Alan Moses an Assistant professor with the University of Toronto's department of Cell & Systems Biology one of the authors of the study.

Relatively little is known about the fungus that causes Dutch elm disease and it's a very distant relative of the fungi that are studied more often by researchers like bread mould or beer yeast.

Dutch elm disease is believed to have originated in The himalayas travelling to Europe from the Dutch east indies in the late 1800s.

It emerged in Holland shortly after the First world war earning the name Dutch elm disease. It is the most destructive elm tree disease in North america and typically kills most trees within two years of infection.

Dutch elm disease is a problem in many parts of the world particularly Scotland Spain Italy Western Canada and New zealand.

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American elm is gone mostly from Dutch elm disease and ash trees are being threatened by the emerald ash borer. Restoring tall prairie grasses Seven years ago Johnson became one of the founders of the Ecosun Prairie Farms to demonstrate the viability of a working grass farm as a means of restoring tall grass prairie and pothole wetlands.

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