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Phenotype Selection for Fusiform Rust Resistance

Open-pollinated progenies from fusiform-rust-free slashpines selected in a 94-percent infected plantation in Mississippi were all more resistant to artificial inoculation than seedlings from a bulk seed lot. Only one rust-infected parent transmitted any appreciable degree of resistance to its progeny.


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Author(s): Ronald J. Dinus

Publication: Tree Improvement and Genetics - Southern Forest Tree Improvement Conference - 1971