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Implications of Chestnut Blight Incidence in Recently Clearcut and Mature Forests for Biological Control of Blight with Hypovirulent Strains of Endothia parasitica

In recently clearcut sites, the incidence of chestnut blight increased from about 20 percent, the level in mature forest areas, to 100 percent between 4 and 9 years after clearcutting. During this period, the increase wan linear with time. Disease progress was of the compound interest type, indicating that inoculum for the epidemics was generated in the clearcut sites.


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Author(s): Frederick V. Hebard, Gary J. Griffin, John Rush Elkins

Publication: American Chestnut Proceedings - 1981