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Environment
John Kidman

Cryogenics the key to saving natives from killer rust

Myrtle rust has become so widespread in Australia it can't be eradicated. (HANDOUT/INATURALIST.ORG)

A process similar to that used to store human embryos is helping save countless native Australian plants under siege from invasive myrtle rust.

In just 13 years, the killer fungus has, with the exception of South Australia, infiltrated every state including Tasmania, as well as the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory.

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