Effect of inoculum density and borate concentration in a stump treatment trial against Heterobasidion annosum
| Autor: | J. E. Pratt |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Disodium octaborate tetrahydrate
animal structures Ecology biology Inoculation Heterobasidion annosum Forestry Fungus biology.organism_classification digestive system Spore body regions chemistry.chemical_compound Horticulture surgical procedures operative chemistry Treatment trial Botany Colonization Dose rate |
| Zdroj: | Forest Pathology. 30:277-283 |
| ISSN: | 1439-0329 1437-4781 |
| DOI: | 10.1046/j.1439-0329.2000.00214.x |
| Popis: | Summary The effectiveness of disodium octaborate tetrahydrate (DOT) as a stump treatment chemical for Sitka spruce in Britain was tested on six occasions by inoculating treated and untreated stumps with basidiospores of Heterobasidion annosum at three concentrations ranging from an average 49 viable spores/ml to 4.9 × 105/ml of water. The extent of colonization of heartwood by H. annosum was measured and, along with the incidence of infected stumps, provided a measure of the combined effects of spore concentration and of the two DOT treatments (15 and 30 g/m2) on the trial results. On untreated stumps, both the incidence of infection and the cross-sectional area of stump heartwood colonized by the fungus increased with inoculum density. The same effect was evident in treated stumps, but it was reduced by increasing DOT application. Infection was at its lowest in stumps treated with DOT at 30 g/m2, being entirely absent from those 60 stumps that were inoculated with the fewest spores. The implications of these findings for the design of trials of control agents that rely on artificial inoculation with H. annosum and for the selection of dose rates to use in harvesting operations are discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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