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Title: Incidence of the pine wood nematode in green coniferous sawn wood in Oregon and California. Forest Service research note

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6235053

Samples of green sawn Douglas-fir, redwood, ponderosa pine, and white fir were collected in August and September 1992 from seven mills in Oregon and California, and assayed for the pine wood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus. The mills produced about 108 million board feet during the survey period. The pine wood nematode was not found in any of the 424 samples of Douglas-fir, the 192 of redwood, or the 3 of white fir. The nematode was recovered from 8 of 105 samples of green ponderosa pine lumber from a mill in Oregon. These eight samples contained an average of 54 pine wood nematodes per gram of dry weight. This is the first report of the pine wood nematode in Oregon.

Research Organization:
Forest Service, Asheville, NC (United States). Southeastern Forest Experiment Station
OSTI ID:
6235053
Report Number(s):
PB-93-208569/XAB; FSRN-SE-367
Resource Relation:
Other Information: See also PB--90-104126
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English