The increasing intensity of the P. ramorum
outbreaks in the UK led researchers to analyze samples from the new
findings further, which resulted in the discovery of a fourth
genetically distinct lineage of the pathogen.
Announcing this at the Fifth Sudden Oak Death
Symposium in California recently, Clive Brasier, an emeritus professor
with the Forestry Commission's Forest Research agency, said he believed,
based on genetic analysis, that the previously unknown European Type 2
(EU2) lineage had been recently introduced into south-west Scotland and
Northern Ireland.
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