Responses of Sitka spruce of different genetic origins to inoculation with Heterobasidion annosum: Lesion lengths, fungal growth and development of the lignosuberized boundary zone

Forest Pathology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 174-186

  Bodles, W J A ^a   Beckett, E ^a   Woodward, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH RATE; LESION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS;

FUNGI; HETEROBASIDION ANNOSUM; PICEA; PICEA SITCHENSIS;

EID: 34250025105     PISSN: 14374781     EISSN: 14390329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0329.2007.00494.x     Document Type: Article

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