Effect of nitrogen fertilization and growth suppression on pitch canker development on loblolly pine seedlings
1989
Solel, Z. (North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh (USA). Dept. of Plant Pathology) | Bruck, R.I.
One-yr-old loblolly pine seedlings of two two half-sib families, grown in sand, were fertilized three times per week with nutrient solution containing 20 mig/ml (low) or 80 mig/ml (high) nitrogen. Nitrogen concentration in the nutrient solution was either constant throughout the experiment, or interchanged after the inoculation of stems or shoots with Fusarium subglutinans, 55 days after initiation of fertilization. Growth was suppressed by a weekly excision of shoots branching from the stem apex. Either high nitrogen nutrition or shoot excision generally enhanced canker elongation on stem inoculated plants. The combination of both was extremely conductive for disease development. With intact plants of family 8-68, interchange of pre-inoculation low nitrogen nutrition with high nitrogen after inoculation enhanced canker elongation and rate of wilt. Nitrogen content varied in wood, bark and needles, as well as with time intervals, but was consistently in accordance with nitrogen level in the nutrient solution. In shoot excised plants, nitrogen content was higher than in the respective treatment without shoot excision. The higher nitrogen nutrient accelerated disease development on inoculated shoots, compared to low nitrogen, on both pine families. With respective treatments, stem cankers were larger and rates of shoots exhibiting lesions or wilt were higher on plants of family 8-68 than on 8-61. It is postulated that the disease enhancing effect associated with higher nitrogen content in stem tissues results from an increased nitrogen availablity to the pathogen
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