The Selection and Breeding of Pestresistant Landscape Trees    (View PDF)

Frank S. Santamour, Jr.

Abstract: The development of pest-resistant landscape trees is con­ sidered to be the most efficient and long-lasting control method for the insects and diseases that plague trees growing in urban and metropolitan areas. Drawing largely on his own work at the U.S. National Arboretum, the author describes some of the approaches and results of research to select and breed trees resistant to Dutch elm disease, sycamore anthracnose, mimosa wilt, Metasequoia canker, white-pine weevil, bronze birch borer, mimosa webworm on honeylocust, and chestnut blight and chestnut gall wasp.

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https://doi.org/10.48044/jauf.1977.038