The cementing material between cells (concentrated in middle of lamella)
Lignin
Average rate of decay per year
6-8 cm/yr
Fruiting bodies, swollen knots and resinosis, basal fire scars, are all examples of these signs of decay
Macroscopic Signs
The fungal class of most foliar diseases
Ascomycete
This needle blight has a worldwide distribution, high-risk in low-lying lands, distributed by rain splash and air dispersal of spores, in the early summer, needles show yellow-tan spots that turn to reddish-brown bands, which girdle the needle
Dothistroma Needle Blight
Primary cell wall constructed of cellulose molecules
Microfibrils
The age in which volume added by growth = volume lost to decay merch volume is maximized
Pathological Rotation
Fungus Mycelium (hyphae without clamp connections)
Basidiomycetes
Characteristic powdery, white mycelium on the leaf surface, can effect the flower, leaf, and green stem tissues
Major host Lodgepole pine, has a one year life cycle, dispersed needles on previous years growth are shed as the summer progresses and remaining new growth has a lion's tail appearance
Pine Needle Cast
Removal of cell wall constituents at variable rates
Selective Delignification
Where two organisms meet and they will cause each other to stop growing
Antagonism
Hyphae without clamp connections
Ascomycetes
all begin as leaf spots, but continue spreading down leaf veins, into the petiole, and into the woody tissue of the plant
Leaf Blight
Major hosts, all conifers in BC, Snowbelt/higher elevations, masses of mycelium cover branches and twigs buried under the snow
Brown Felt Blight
Extracellular enzymes that degrade cellulose and hemicellulose
CODIT
This rot effects conifers and hardwoods, perennial pored fruiting body.
Brown Cubical Rot
Parasite, but saprophyte occasionally --> Most Root Rots
Facultative Saprophyte
Can spread sexually, asexually, and by vectors (aphids and sucking insects)
Powdery Mildew
Depolymerizing enzyme called lignin peroxidase degrades this wood structure
Lignin (Degradation)
Is a bladder like distension or outgrowth, of a parenchyma cell into the lumen of adjacent xylem vessels in wood
Tyloses
The process in which white rot can only degrade lignin and not much cellulose
Biopulping
A dense mass of hyphae that is produced by certain fungi and gives rise to spore-producing bodies
Result in the death and shedding of dead needles
Needle Casts