In vitro differentiation of plantlets from embryonic explants of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. ex Loud.)

1984 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamlesh R. Patel ◽  
Trevor A. Thorpe
1986 ◽  
Vol 64 (10) ◽  
pp. 2368-2371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith N. Egger ◽  
J. W. Paden

Forty isolates of postfire ascomycetes (Pezizales) were tested for in vitro pathogenicity on seeds and germinants of lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta Dougl. Two known pathogens, Caloscypha fulgens (Pers.) Boud. and Botrytis cinerea Pers., were included as a check of the method. Caloscypha fulgens was the only fungus that caused serious declines in seed germination, although several species of postfire Pezizales were capable of preemergence seed infection. Rhizina undulata Fr. and Pyropyxis rubra (Peck) Egger were strongly pathogenic on germinants. Pyropyxis rubra was not previously known to be pathogenic. Many isolates were weakly pathogenic on germinants under the conditions tested.


1990 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne Sigler ◽  
Yuichi Yamaoka ◽  
Yasuyuki Hiratsuka

Arthrographis pinicola sp.nov. (Hyphomycetes) is described; it was isolated from galleries and adult beetles of Ips latidens and from galleries of Dendroctonus ponderosae in Pinus contorta var. latifolia in western Canada. In I. latidens infested lodgepole pine, this species extensively colonizes nuptial chambers and egg galleries, characteristically forming floccose conidiomata composed of repeatedly branched hyphae which divide to form arthroconidia having schizolytic dehiscence. The fungus is antagonistic to some blue stain fungi in vitro. Arthrographis pinicola is compared with other species of Arthrographis, and with Arthropsis microsperma and the discomycete Pezizella chapmanii. Key words: Arthrographis pinicola, Hyphomycetes, bark beetle fungi, antifungal compound, arthrographol.


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