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This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
When wildfires rip through a landscape, firefighters have the first — and most immediate — job. But then, that burned moonscape often passes into the hands of restoration ecologists, who yank out invasive species, and plant native seedlings in their place.
"We try to artificially give a start to these communities that should resemble the communities that were there prior to a disturbance." Matteo Garbelotto, a plant pathologist at U.C. Berkeley. The problem, he says, is that microscopic killers sometimes hitchhike on native seedlings grown in nurseries. As happened at one restoration site in the San Francisco Bay area, where restorers hoped that nursery-grown natives called toyons and sticky monkey flowers could be reintroduced.
"Plant ecologists were looking at them and thinking oh why are these toyons dying here, or why are these sticky monkey flowers dying in large numbers in this restoration site? And so it happens that each one of those plant species was reintroduced in a restoration effort and had one or sometimes multiple of these pathogens that belonged to the genus Phytophthora, which incidentally is the same genus of the pathogen that causes sudden oak death, and it's also the same genus of the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine."

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Garbelotto and his colleagues surveyed five native plant nurseries for the Phytophthora pathogen. And found that more than a quarter of the plants sampled were infected. They also discovered, in separate work, that a common chemical used to suppress the pathogen in nurseries can actually breed resistance. "The passage of these strains through these production facilities, sometimes it can make them more aggressive."
They reported their work in the journals PLOS ONE and Plant Pathology.
But there is a solution to root out these invisible killers. A yearlong regimen of stricter sanitation at native plant nurseries — like pasteurizing pots and soil — appeared to eliminate the pathogen. And disease-free seedlings means damaged landscapes have a better chance at bouncing back.
Thanks for listening for Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.

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species ['spi:ʃiz]

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n. (单复同)物种,种类

 
landscape ['lændskeip]

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n. 风景,山水,风景画
v. 美化景观

 
suppress [sə'pres]

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vt. 镇压,使 ... 止住,禁止

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prior ['praiə]

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adj. 优先的,更重要的,在前的
adv.

 
incidentally [.insi'dentəli]

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adv. 附带地,偶然地,顺便地

 
enrich [in'ritʃ]

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vt. 使富足,使肥沃,添加元素

 
eliminate [i'limineit]

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v. 除去,剔除; 忽略

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microscopic ['maikrə'skɔpik]

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adj. 显微镜的,极小的,微观的

 
invasive [in'veisiv]

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adj. 侵略性的;攻击性的

 
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