{"id":770693,"date":"2023-10-27T12:28:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T16:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=770693"},"modified":"2023-10-27T12:28:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T16:28:35","slug":"a-mystery-disease-hit-south-africas-pine-trees-40-years-ago-new-dna-technology-has-found-the-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=770693","title":{"rendered":"A mystery disease hit South Africa&#039;s pine trees 40 years ago: New DNA technology has found the killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1970s and 1980s, pine trees growing in various forestry plantations in South Africa&#8217;s Western Cape province began to die in patches. These trees succumbed to a mysterious root disease and the patches expanded gradually. Spontaneous regrowth of seedlings in the patches died dramatically.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-10-mystery-disease-south-africa-trees.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A mystery disease hit South Africa&#8217;s pine trees 40 years ago: New DNA technology has found the killer<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1970s and 1980s, pine trees growing in various forestry plantations in South Africa&#8217;s Western Cape province began to die in patches. These trees succumbed to a mysterious root&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}