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Change of Water Content and Disease Development on Pinus thunbergii Seedlings Inoculated with Bursaphelenchus xylophilus  

Yoon, Jun-Hyuck (Department of Forest Genetic Resources, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Woo, Kwan-Soo (Department of Forest Genetic Resources, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Moon, Yil-Seong (Southern Forest Research Center, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Koo, Yeong-Bon (Department of Forest Genetic Resources, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Lee, Do-Hyung (Department of Forest Resources, Yeungnam University)
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Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science / v.97, no.6, 2008 , pp. 570-575 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was carried out to provide basic information on physiological changes of 4-year-old seedlings of Pinus thunbergii inoculated with pine wood nematodes by analyzing changes of symptom development, stem and needle water content and nematode populations in stem. Twenty days after inoculation, needles were discolored as an external symptom, and xylem drying and pith browning occurred at the above and below of the inoculation sites as an internal symptom. However, xylem drying began to occur 10 days after inoculation, which was determined by the difference in drying status of xylem and cortex between control and inoculated seedlings. Although population of pine wood nematode increased from 5 to 10 days after inoculation, it has increased dramatically from 10 to 20 days after inoculation when both internal and external symptoms appeared. As the time passed by after inoculation with pine wood nematodes, water content of stem and relative water content in current needles and branch gradually decreased. As the number of nematodes increases, water content of stem and relative water content of current needles and branches decreased significantly. There was a positive relationship between the number of nematodes and xylem drying and/or disease development, but the number of nematodes rapidly decreased as seedlings become severely diseased.
Keywords
Pinus thunbergii; pine wood nematode; water content; xylem drying;
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