High Seedling Mortality of Scots Pine Caused by Heterobasidion annosum s.s.
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Site
2.2. Monitoring Heterobasidion Root Rot in the Previous Tree Generation
2.3. Determination of Heterobasidion Infections in the Subsequent Pine Regeneration
2.4. Somatic Incompatibility Tests
2.5. Measurement of the Soil pH
2.6. Calculations and Statistics
3. Results
3.1. Heterobasidion Root Rot in the Previous Tree Generation
3.2. Progression of Heterobasidion Root Rot in the Subsequent Pine Regeneration
3.3. Occurrence of Heterobasidion Fruiting Bodies
3.4. Soil pH in Disease Centers and Healthy Parts of the Stand
4. Discussion
4.1. Incidence of Heterobasidion Root Rot in the Previous Scots Pine Rotation
4.2. Progress of Heterobasidion Root Rot in the Subsequent Pine Regeneration
4.3. Heterobasidion Populations in Disease Centers
4.4. Occurrence of Heterobasidion Fruiting Bodies
4.5. Variation of Soil pH in the Regeneration
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Piri, T.; Vainio, E.J.; Nuorteva, H.; Hantula, J. High Seedling Mortality of Scots Pine Caused by Heterobasidion annosum s.s. Forests 2021, 12, 1289. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12091289
Piri T, Vainio EJ, Nuorteva H, Hantula J. High Seedling Mortality of Scots Pine Caused by Heterobasidion annosum s.s. Forests. 2021; 12(9):1289. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12091289
Chicago/Turabian StylePiri, Tuula, Eeva J. Vainio, Heikki Nuorteva, and Jarkko Hantula. 2021. "High Seedling Mortality of Scots Pine Caused by Heterobasidion annosum s.s." Forests 12, no. 9: 1289. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12091289
APA StylePiri, T., Vainio, E. J., Nuorteva, H., & Hantula, J. (2021). High Seedling Mortality of Scots Pine Caused by Heterobasidion annosum s.s. Forests, 12(9), 1289. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12091289