But in the millennium year Professor Tseng Hsien-hsiung of National Taiwan University's Plant Pathology and Entomology Department and his research students discovered under the microscope a fungus which offers new hope for the pines 'survival.
直到千禧年，台大植病系教授曾顯雄和研究生在顯微鏡下找到了一種真菌，才為松樹帶來一線生機。