Morpho-biometrical characterisation of Portuguese <i>Bursaphelenchus xylophilus </i>isolates with mucronate, digitate or round tailed females
Morpho-biometrical studies were conducted on 12 Bursaphelenchus xylophilus isolates collected from maritime pine, Pinus pinaster, in Portugal. The studies were carried out on 20 females and 20 males from each isolate. A wide variation in the female tails, from round, digitate to mucronate was detect...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2009-01-01
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Series: | Phytopathologia Mediterranea |
Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/pm/article/view/5252 |