Fast- and slow-growing subalpine fir produce lesions of different sizes in response to inoculation with a blue-stain fungus associated with Dryocoetes confusus (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)

Canadian Journal of Botany

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 735-741

  Bleiker, Katherine P ^a,c   Uzunovic, Adnan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b FORINTEK CANADA CORP   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abies lasiocarpa; Blue stain fungi; Defense; Dryocoetes confusus; Host vigor; Ophiostoma

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; FUNGUS PROTECTION;

BARK BEETLES; RADIAL GROWTH;

FORESTRY;

ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENSE; BEETLE; CONIFEROUS TREE; FUNGUS; LESION; PLANT DEFENSE;

FORESTRY; FUNGI;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

ABIES; ABIES LASIOCARPA; COLEOPTERA; CONIFERALES; DRYOCOETES CONFUSUS; FUNGI; OPHIOSTOMA; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 4344631966     PISSN: 00084026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/b04-053     Document Type: Article

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