Summary
13In Vietnam, the productivity of Acacia hybrid (Acacia mangium x A. auriculiformis) 14 plantations is being threatened by an aggressive canker pathogen, Ceratocystis manginecans 15 and selection for tolerance is the main control strategy. A pot trial was established in Binh 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59
56Silvicultural practices required to produce solid wood from Acacia include singling, pruning 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 Table 2). The identities of C. manginecans were determined from DNA sequence 98 data of the rDNA ITS and β-tubulin genes. DNA fragments were amplified using primers daily with 3 L of water using an automatic irrigation water system.
117The experiment was set up as a randomised complete block design, with five fungal The diameters (at 1.3 m tree height above pot surface) and heights of trees were measured 124 once, just prior to inoculation. All trees of each of the genotypes were of similar diameter
125(3.76 ± 0.11 cm; mean ± standard error) and height (491 ± 8 cm). In August 2014, 14-month-old trees were inoculated with a fungal isolate on the stem 50 cm 130 above the soil. In brief, the bark was removed with a sterile borer (10 mm diameter) and a 10 An 80-cm length of stem centered on the inoculation site was cut from the main seedling.
148This stem length was halved longitudinally through the inoculation wound with a blade (Fig. 149 1). A cordless drill was used to obtain shavings of sapwood from the following locations:
150• in inoculated treatment -the infected region (Fig. 1),
151• in wounded control treatment -adjacent to (above) the inoculation site,
152• in unwounded control treatment -healthy sapwood adjacent to (above) at a similar 153 height to the other treatments. Lesion length was significantly influenced by Acacia genotype (Fig. 3 and Table 3). The clones, the lesion length of BV10 was most similar to that of AA1.
226Lesion length was significantly affected by fungal isolate (Table 3). Lesion length of isolate 227 C3 was significantly higher by 93.1% and 36.6% than that of isolate C2 and C1, respectively.
228Lesion length of isolate C2 was significantly longer by 41.4% than that of isolate C1 (Fig. 4a). 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 With the exceptions...