Ecology and Impacts of Emergent Forest Diseases in California
The course is organized in 8 parts
- Part 1: Introduction to tree diseases and their causal agents
- Part 2: Ecology of forest diseases, differences between native and non-native diseases
- Part 3: Principles of Biological Invasions and diseases caused by off-site hosts or by forestry practices
- Part 4: Emergent diseases in California caused by exotic fungi
- Part 5: Emergent diseases in California caused by exotic oomycetes
- Part 6: Newest threats
- Part 7: Molecular diagnostics in Forest Pathology
- Part 8: Pest Risk Assessment: modeling, predictions, laws and regulations
The following readings are general on the theory of emergent diseases:
Desprez 2007
Download (Desprez2007-1.pdf, 2.02MB)
Fisher 2012
Download (fisher2012.pdf, 1.78MB)
Garbelotto 2008 phytomed
Download (garbelotto2008phytomed.pdf, 680KB)
Hayden etal 2012
Download (Hayden-et-al-2012.pdf, 221KB)
Santini 2012
Download (santini2012-1.pdf, 1.24MB)
The following readings are specific to the diseases covered in the workshop:
White pines Ribes and Blister Rust (white pine blister rust)
Download (White-pinesRibesand-blister-rust-1.pdf, 1MB)
Pitchcanker Review (pine pitch canker)
Download (PitchcankerReview.pdf, 3MB)
Eukaryotic Cell (sudden oak death)
Download (Eukaryotic-Cell-2012-Garbelotto-1313-23-1.pdf, 938KB)
Dutch elm brasier2001 (dutch elm disease)
Download (dutchelmbrasier2001.pdf, 603KB)
Annurev.phyto.graniti1 (cypress canker)
Download (PitchcankerReview-1.pdf, 3MB)
Annual Review Garbelotto Gonthier (heterobasidion)
Download (AnnualReviewGarbelottoGonthier-1.pdf, 1.29MB)
Class PowerPoints Spring 2017 (Click to Download – Sorry too big to embed):
