Waiting for the storm to pass In 1985, Professor Tseng Hsien-hsiung of NTU's Plant Pathology and Entomology Department isolated pine wood nematodes (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus) from a dead Luchu pine (Pinus luchuensis) in Taipei County's Shihmen Rural Township, confirming the cause of the continued death of pine trees at lower elevations in northern Taiwan.
靜待狂風暴雨過去民國七十四年，台大植物病蟲害系教授曾顯雄在台北縣石門鄉枯死的琉球松樹，分離出松材線蟲，確定了台灣北部低地松樹不斷死亡的病因。