The Washington Post, November 21st, 1994
Twice in this century, widespread epidemics of Dutch elm disease have devastated shade trees like those that frame the national Mall and grace countless residential lawns. Now a scientist searching the western Himalayas for the origins of the tree-killing fungus may have turned up a means of controlling it naturally. Dutch elm disease, so named because it was first discovered in the Netherlands, produces a terminal wilting and drying of leaves on an infected tree. Researchers in 1987 eliminated China as the source of the fungal disease, which is carried by bark beetles. They then zeroed in on ...
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