Table 4.

The percent of canker initiation on blue spruce branches wound inoculated with isolates of different Cytospora species: Study 2.

Isolate originPercent canker initiationa
Coniferous hosts
Picea pungens100
P. pungens92
P. pungens var. glauca100
P. glauca100
Larix decidua0
Pseudotsuga menziesii74
Deciduous hosts
Acer palmatum4
Acer platanoides4
Cydonia oblonga4
Malus pumila6
Populus X ‘Robusta’0
Prunus persica4
Quercus albab4
Rhus typhina4
Salix babylonica0
Salix matsudanab8
Control2
  • a Basis: The number of inoculations resulting in cankers/total number inoculations

  • b 25 inoculations per isolate, all others with 50 per isolate