Most certainly!
Forget M Knight Charlatan and his Hippy Happening with the killer grass - seems that in the {future} we subjugate killer trees and get all the leccy from it's roots!
And Killer Trees don't like being made into battery hedges (free-range trees deffo not on the menu), and so the Sap Of Mutation comes to the fore.
Of course, when everyone's being mutated into murderous monstrosities, you send in The One to sort it all out... who promptly loses his memory until the Final Revelation, and The Process is reversed and then all the energy is fed back into rootage, causing foliage expansion.
And the loss of all the leccy!
So the poor old future sailors can't watch the telly.
These messianic saviours - selfish, selfish, selfish, the lot of 'em!