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Phacidium infestans on dwarf plants of Pinus sylvestris
Author(s) -
RollHansen Finn
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
european journal of forest pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.535
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1439-0329
pISSN - 0300-1237
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0329.1975.tb00927.x
Subject(s) - biology , pinus <genus> , botany , horticulture
A review of the literature is presented and an infection experiment described. Dwarf plants of Pinus sylvestris are seldom infected and destroyed by the snow mould fungus Phacidium infestans . The reasons are: The amount of infection material is usually small, the ecological conditions do not favour infection and subsequent development of the disease, the plants are small targets for spores and infective needles, the dwarf plants are fairly resistant.