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Recent Publications on Pitch Canker

 

The Epidemiology of Pitch Canker in California. Storer, A.J., Wood, D.L., and Gordon, T.R. 2002.Forest Science 48:694-700.

Incidence of the Pitch Canker Pathogen and Associated Insects in Intact and Chipped Monterey Pine Branches. McNee, W.R., Wood, D.L., Storer, A.J., and Gordon, T.R. 2002.Canadian Entomologist 134:47-58.

Systemic Induced Resistance in Monterey Pine. Bonello, P., Gordon, T.R., and Storer, A.J. 2001.Forest Pathology 31:1-8.

The Role of Olfactory Stimuli in the Location of Weakened Hosts by Twig-Infesting Pityophthorus spp. Bonello, P. McNee, W.R., Storer, A.J., Wood, D.L., and Gordon, T.R. 2001. Ecological Entomology 26:8-15.

The Pitch Canker Epidemic in California. T. R. Gordon, University of California, Davis; and A. J. Storer and D. L. Wood. 2001. Plant Disease 85:1128-1139.

An Initial Assessment of Genetic Relationships Among Populations of Fusarium circinatum in Different Parts of the World. Wikler K , Gordon TR. 2000.  Canadian Journal of Botany 78: 709-717.

Potential for Outcrossing in an Apparently Asexual Population of Fusarium circinatum, the Causal Agent of Pitch Canker Disease. Wikler, K, Gordon, T.R., Clark, S. L., Wingfield, M.J. and Britz, H. 2000. Mycologia 92:1085-1090.

Resistance to Pitch Canker Disease, Caused by Fusarium subglutinans f. sp. pini, in Monterey Pine (Pinus radiata). Gordon, T.R. Wikler, K.R., Clark, S. L., Okamoto, D., Storer, A.J. and Bonello, P. 1998.Plant Pathology 47:706-711.