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Infected Seedlings Develop Fusiform Rust Cankers After Outplanting

Nursery-infected seedlings that appear to be free of fusiform rust at planting may be the cause of unexplained mortality in young pine plantations. Such concealed infection, added to cull for rust in nurseries and natural infection in plantations, makes fusiform rust the most serious disease of pine seedlings in the South today.


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Author(s): Felix J. Czabator, Hans Enghardt

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 37 (1959)