Author: Bohun B. Kinloch

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Published: 1990

Total Pages: 7

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The behavior of white pine blister rust at Mountain Home State Demonstration Forest and surrounding areas in the southern Sierra Nevada of California indicates that the epidemic has not yet stabilized and that the most likely prognosis is a pandemic on white pines in this region within the next few decades. The impact on sugar pines, from young regeneration to old growth, already has been severe in some areas, and silvicultural control measures have been largely ineffective. An operational genetic program, based on selection of seed parents carrying a major resistance gene, is described that is simple and effective. This program will be useful in maintaining sugar pine as a crop species in artificial regeneration for at least one rotation, and in preserving the genetic integrity of sugar pine populations in jeopardy from the rust.

Download or read book White Pine Blister Rust at Mountain Home Demonstration State Forest written by Bohun B. Kinloch and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The behavior of white pine blister rust at Mountain Home State Demonstration Forest and surrounding areas in the southern Sierra Nevada of California indicates that the epidemic has not yet stabilized and that the most likely prognosis is a pandemic on white pines in this region within the next few decades. The impact on sugar pines, from young regeneration to old growth, already has been severe in some areas, and silvicultural control measures have been largely ineffective. An operational genetic program, based on selection of seed parents carrying a major resistance gene, is described that is simple and effective. This program will be useful in maintaining sugar pine as a crop species in artificial regeneration for at least one rotation, and in preserving the genetic integrity of sugar pine populations in jeopardy from the rust.