Scientists Battle Sudden Oak Death
A swath of uninfected forest on the Peninsula could hold the key to stemming the tree-killing disease
By John Upton
Source: The Bay Citizen (http://s.tt/12RB9)
On a hot summer day in 2008, a pair of plant disease researchers made an extraordinary discovery as they toured a hillside forest in San Mateo County: a stand of trees that had not been infected by the killer disease known as sudden oak death.
The healthy swath of forest, located on watershed lands owned by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, is now being used as a laboratory for the largest experiment ever conducted in the wild on a promising preventive treatment for this fast-spreading scourge.
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