Morpho-biometrical characterisation of Portuguese <i>Bursaphelenchus xylophilus </i>isolates with mucronate, digitate or round tailed females

Morpho-biometrical studies were conducted on 12 Bursaphelenchus xylophilus isolates collected from maritime pine, Pinus pinaster, in Portugal. The studies were carried out on 20 females and 20 males from each isolate. A wide variation in the female tails, from round, digitate to mucronate was detect...

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Main Authors: L. Fonseca, M.C. Vieira Dos Santos, M.S.N. de A. Santos, R.H.C. Curtis, I.M. de O. Abrantes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2009-01-01
Series:Phytopathologia Mediterranea
Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/pm/article/view/5252