Concerns for health and bio-accumulation of pesticides must be considered. You are a pathogenic fungus C your bread and butter is the water and nutrients in the xylem of your host tree. You must gain entry into the tree, reach the nutrient source, and spread your spores to ensure your continued survival. Explain how you will overcome these obstacles and resist your hosts defences. The fungus is non-mobile and needs a vector to transfer it to another host.
Trees can compartmentalize and contain the spread of infection.
The fungus is successful because it can spread quickly to overcome a host s defences. A strategy for a fungus to attract the beetle to facilitate transportation would effective. You are the mayor of a major city, Elmsville. News reports from neighbouring cities indicate a mounting terrorist bomb threat. You know the terrorists generally travel by car and bring some of the bomb making materials with them and purchase others in the city they are attacking.