Ash Tree DNA Sparks Unexpected Evolutionary Fightback After Deadly Woodland Collapse

Ash Tree DNA Sparks Unexpected Evolutionary Fightback After Deadly Woodland Collapse

A healthy ash tree / Pixabay For years, it looked like the story of Britain’s ash trees would end in silence — trunks hollowed, woodlands emptied, and a critical native species wiped out by a relentless invader. But nature, in an astonishing twist, has decided otherwise. Against all odds, ash trees across Britain are spontaneously evolving a resistance to ash dieback, a fungal disease once predicted to annihilate up to 85% of ash populations. An…