Susceptibility of silver birch and black alder to several Phytophthora species isolated from soils in declining broadleaf forests in western Ukraine

Abstract

In declining broadleaf forests in western Ukraine, several Phytophthora species including P. plurivora, P. bilorbang, P. polonica, P. gonapodyides and P. cactorum were recovered using soil baiting assays and identified using morphological and molecular methods. Pathogenicity tests of selected isolates were performed on black alder (Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaerth.) and silver birch (Betula pendula Roth.) to assess susceptibility of these two tree species to the newly detected Phytophthora species. Phytophthora plurivora, P. bilorbang and P. polonica showed higher pathogenicity in both alder and birch compared to the other tested Phytophthora species.

Keywords

black alder; pathogenicity; Phytophthora; silver birch; Ukraine

Published in

Forest Pathology
2023, volume: 53, number: 4, article number: e12817
Publisher: WILEY

SLU Authors

• Matsiakh, Iryna

  • Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    
  • Ukrainian National Forestry University

• López-García, Noelia

  • Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Cleary, Michelle

  • Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Forest Science

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/efp.12817

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/122854