- Iyo Associated Press
Yakatumirwa: 10 / 4 / 2010
Yunivhesiti yeCalifornia, Berkeley masayendisiti ari kutsvaga rubatsiro rweveruzhinji mukuronda chirwere chiri kuuraya miti yemuoki.
Kwemakore maviri apfuura, masayendisiti anga achiverengera vagari kuti vatore masampuli emiti voatumira kuyunivhesiti yeForest Pathology and Mycology Laboratory. Ivo vakashandisa ruzivo kugadzira mepu kuronga kupararira kwekamwe kamwe muoki kufa.
Utachiona husinganzwisisike hwakatanga kuwanikwa muMill Valley muna 1995 uye kubva ipapo hwauraya makumi ezviuru emiti kuchamhembe kweCalifornia nekumaodzanyemba kweOregon. Masayendisiti anofungidzira kuti chirwere ichi, chinopfuudzwa kuburikidza nezvinomera zvinogara nemvura, chinogona kuuraya inosvika 90 muzana yemioki mipenyu yemuCalifornia nemioki mitema mukati memakore 25.
Chirongwa chemepu, chakatsigirwa neUS Forest Service, ndiyo yekutanga-yakavakirwa munharaunda kuedza kurwisa kamwe kamwe kufa muoki. Yakanga iine vatori vechikamu vangangosvika mazana maviri nemakumi mana vakaunganidza anopfuura zviuru zana gore rapfuura, akadaro Matteo Garbelotto, UC Berkeley sango pathologist uye nyanzvi yenyika parufu rwakangoerekana rwafa.
"Ichi chikamu chemhinduro," Garbelotto akaudza San Francisco Chronicle. "Kana tikadzidzisa nekubatanidza varidzi vezvivakwa, tinogona kuita mutsauko mukuru."
Pane imwe nguva nzvimbo yakazadzwa yaonekwa, varidzi vedzimba vanogona kubvisa miti yemiti, iyo inogona kuwedzera mararamiro emuoki kanenge kagumi. Vagari vanokurudzirwawo kuti vasaite zvirongwa zvikuru zvinogona kukanganisa ivhu nemiti munguva yekunaya kwemvura nekuti zvinogona kubatsira mukuparadzira chirwere ichi.
"Nharaunda yega yega inodzidza kuti yakangoerekana yafa muoki munharaunda dzavanogara inofanira kuti, 'Hei ndiite chimwe chinhu,' nekuti paunozoona kuti miti yave kufa, yatove kunonoka," akadaro Garbelotto.
Dzvanya apa kuti uwane chinyorwa chizere pamusoro pekuedza kwaBerkeley kuteedzera Sudden Oak Rufu.