Response of Japanese red pine to inoculation with a blue stain fungus,Ceratocystis piceae |
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Authors: | Xudong Peng Hisashi Kajimura Ei'ichi Shibata |
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Institution: | (1) School of Agricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, 464-01 Nagoya, Japan |
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Abstract: | To confirm the pathogenicity of a blue stain fungus,Ceratocystis piceae (Münch) Bakshi to the Japanese red pine (Pinus densiflora Sieb. et Zucc.), the responses of healthy young pine trees and stressed trees which were girdled by the half-circumferential
girdling technique were investigated by the fungal inoculation test. Although neither of the pine trees inoculated withC. piceae in the non-girdled treatment nor the controls died, mortality of the trees girdled and inoculated withC. piceae was 28.6%. In the pine trees inoculated withC. piceae, the mean area of the necrotic lesion of the sapwood was significantly larger than that of the controls, and the mean of
the water pressure potential of the xylem decreased, regardless of the girdling treatment. TheC. piceae was reisolated from the wood pieces near the inoculation points on the inoculated trees, but not from the controls. These
results suggest that under strongly stressed conditions, the Japanese red pine trees might have been killed by heavy infestations
ofC. piceae carried by bark beetles.
A part of this paper was presented at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Forestry Society (1992). |
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Keywords: | bark girdling blue stain fungi Ceratocystis piceae pathogenicity Pinus densiflora |
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