During the exchange, Australian rangers identified local communities using simi- lar fire sticks and inferred homogeneity in traditional fire techniques (Johnston 2020), even though fire-stick farming methods, or cultural burns, have divergently evolved over millennia to achieve diverse socio-cultural ...
The evolution of host specificity in a pathogen usually involves a complex interplay of genetic and molecular factors that can only arise if the two organisms had the chance to coevolve. However, since North America is the center of origin of fire blight and domesticated apple species are native...