Genome of blue stain fungus evolved to bypass tree defense in mountain pine beetle epidemic: UBC

Monday, January 24, 2011 - 16:21 in Biology & Nature

The genome of the fungus that helps mountain pine beetles infect and kill lodgepole pines has been decoded in a University of British Columbia study. Also known as blue stain fungus for the stain it...

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