Three species of true firs in the Pacific Northwest--Abies gran-dis, grand fir; A. amabilis, Pacific silver fir; and A. lasiocarpa,
subalpine fir--are severely damaged or killed by an imported insect
pest, the balsam woolly aphid (Chermes (Adelges) piceae Ratz.), Infestations of this insect cause abnormalities in the wood and, in...
Knowledge of the viruses which are mechanically transmitted
from pear to herbaceous plants and the diseases they cause in pear
is not complete. This thesis discusses the means used to mechanically
transmit pear viruses, the properties of those viruses and their
relationships with latent viruses of apple.
Herbaceous plant virus...
A disease of sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) known as "cherry
rosette" has threatened production of cherries in Oregon. In 1961
this disease was observed in widely separated orchards. Rosette
occurred in isolated trees or in spreading patterns, often from
identified single trees or from one section of an orchard....
Verticillium wilt of hops in Oregon, caused by Verticillium
dahliae Kleb., was first reported in 1956. Later, V. albo-atrum
Reinke & Berth. was also isolated from infected hop plants, and thus
both species of the fungus were shown to be the causal agents of the
disease in Oregon.
The purpose...
Verticillium dahliae Kleb. causes a wilt disease of peppermint.
Attempts to control the disease by soil fumigation, crop rotation,
flaming of stubble, and deep plowing have met with only limited success.
Development of resistant varieties through conventional breeding
procedures is difficult because commercial peppermint is male-sterile.
Several strains of commercial...
The fungus Phoma menthae Strasser causes black lesions and
cankers on stems and rhizomes of Mentha piperita L. The purpose
of this thesis was to: 1) study the production of polygalacturonase
(PG) and macerating enzymes (ME) by P. menthae in vivo and in
vitro, 2) study the effects of phenolic...