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Ash trees evolve resistance to fungus that risked their existence
short by Vaishnavi Mishra / on 28 Jun 2025,Saturday
Scientists discovered that a new generation of ash trees, growing naturally in UK, is showing greater resistance to fungal disease ash dieback than the older trees. The deadly ash dieback arrived in Britain in 2012 and threatened trees' existence. Researchers observed subtle shifts in the frequencies of DNA variants associated with tree health across thousands of locations in the genome.
short by Vaishnavi Mishra / 04:07 pm on 28 Jun
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