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TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
Volume 30, Issue 2, Pages 475-481Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-015-1217-0
Keywords
Pinus thunbergii; Resistance; Survival; Growth; Ectomycorrhizae
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- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [25304026] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Since Japanese black pine (Pinus thunbergii Parl.) forests have been widely devastated by pine wilt disease, several kinds of resistant black pines have been developed. Although all of the resistant black pines are the same species, these resistant trees show different physiological characteristics. We investigated the survival rates and growth rates, as well as ectomycorrhizal composition and associated fungi, on four kinds of Japanese black pine seedlings (three pine wilt-resistant and one non-resistant), and elucidated the factors affecting the various physiological characteristics. We found that the abundance of ectomycorrhizal types differed even though seedlings were grown sympatrically in the same areas for about 2 years. The seedlings that had plentiful white ectomycorrhizae showed the highest survival and growth rates regardless of the variety of black pine. Sequence similarities of the white ectomycorrhizae in the rDNA ITS region were best matched with members of Astraeus sp., Atheliaceae, Boletaceae and Thelephoraceae. Our findings indicate that intra-specific physiological adaptation might be affected by ectomycorrhizal composition or by the specific ectomycorrhizal species.
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