Historical outbreaks of coffee wilt disease linked to gene transfer from another fungus

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Dec 5, 2024, 2:00 pm80 pts
The fungus that causes coffee wilt disease repeatedly took up segments of DNA from a related fungal pathogen, which contributed to successive outbreaks of the disease. Lily Peck of Imperial College London, U.K., reports these new findings in a study published December 5 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology.

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