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Pittosporum tobira seedlings were inoculated with Fusarium solani isolated from Scolytogenes birosimensis, a bark beetle that infects P. tobira. The fungus produced necrotic lesions in the phloem and a discolored zone in the sapwood. Seedlings inoculated with the fungus and grown under weak light conditions were killed within 12–30 days after inoculation. Isolates from both S. birosimensis, which has caused P. tobira decline in Aichi and Fukuoka prefectures, and from the beetle under endemic conditions in Ibaraki Prefecture were both pathogenic to P. tobira.
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This study was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science to H. Kajimura (20405025). Part of this study was presented at the 117th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Forest Society, April 2006, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan and at the 118th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Forest Society, April 2007, Kyusyu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
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Tetsuya Aoyama: deceased August 10, 2010.
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Yamaoka, Y., Kuroki, D., Matsutani, K. et al. Pathogenicity of Fusarium solani associated with a bark beetle, Scolytogenes birosimensis, to Pittosporum tobira . J For Res 20, 514–521 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10310-015-0505-2
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