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Published online 6 April 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040405-1
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US army may have killed Italian trees
Deadly fungus hitched trans-Atlantic lift with American troops.
TheUS Army may have unwittingly killed hundreds of pine trees in an Italian hunting estate. Genetic analysis suggests that the trees were infected with an American fungus, imported by US troops during the Second World War.
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