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Disease Resistance Studies in Tree Improvement Research

The term tree improvement research suggests different things to different people. It takes in a variety of sciences which, though often working separately, all have primarily the same purpose: to produce better trees. One phase of this expanding and important program is disease-resistance research. This is not a new field of work in forestry. Resistance studies have achieved varying degrees of success with such important diseases as mimosa wilt, littleleaf, white pine blister rust, chestnut blight, and several diseases of poplars. More recently research on resistance to fusiform rust has begun in the South. As this subject is of immediate interest, its application in the field of tree improvement will be discussed on the basis of present knowledge.


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Author(s): F. F. Jewell

Publication: Tree Improvement and Genetics - Southern Forest Tree Improvement Conference - 1959