Morphological and Ecological Variation of Gremmeniella abietina var. abietina in Pinus sylvestris, Pinus contorta and icea abiesling Stands in Northern Finland and the Kola Peninsula

Author： Kaitera Juha   Seitamäki Leena   Jalkanen Risto  

Publisher： Taylor & Francis Ltd

ISSN： 0282-7581

Source： Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, Vol.15, Iss.1, 2000-02, pp. : 13-19

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Abstract

The morphological and ecological variation of two types of Gremmeniella abietina. abietina causing scleroderris canker on conifers was investigated in Pinus spp. and Picea sp. sapling stands in northern Finland and the Kola Peninsula. Small-tree type (STT or B type) of G. abietina was detected alone in 13 Scots pine, three lodgepole pine and two Norway spruce sapling stands out of 26 stands investigated, both STT and large-tree type (LTT or A type) were observed in six Scots pine stands, and LTT was detected alone in two Scots pine stands. For the first time, G. abietina was found to injure Norway spruce saplings in a respective plantation in northern Fennoscandia. STT isolates produced statistically significantly more conidia in vitro than LTT isolates. Morphological variation in conidia septation revealed that STT produced conidia with more than five septa more frequently than did LTT. There was a greater range in variation in septation in STT than in LTT, with overlapping between the types. Isolates of both types were equally associated with cankers, coloured wood, pycnidia or apothecia in the infected saplings.

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