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A Pine in Distress: How Infection by Different Pathogenic Fungi Affect Lodgepole Pine Chemical Defenses
In North America, lodgepole pine is frequently subjected to attacks by various biotic agents that compromise its ability to defend against subsequent...
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Traceability of provenance-collected lodgepole pine in a reforestation chain of custody case study
Millions of lodgepole pine seedlings are planted each year to replace losses due to harvest or large-scale natural disturbances such as fires and...
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Multiple-trait analyses improved the accuracy of genomic prediction and the power of genome-wide association of productivity and climate change-adaptive traits in lodgepole pine
BackgroundGenomic prediction (GP) and genome-wide association (GWA) analyses are currently being employed to accelerate breeding cycles and to...
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Primary and Secondary Metabolite Profiles of Lodgepole Pine Trees Change with Elevation, but Not with Latitude
Climate change has a large influence on plant functional and phenotypic traits including plant primary and secondary metabolites. One...
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Understory vegetation response to mountain pine beetle disturbance in northern Colorado lodgepole pine forests
Understory plants are an important element of forests, having a considerable influence on ecosystem functioning and canopy-tree development following...
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Evaluating lodgepole pine endophytes for their ability to fix nitrogen and support tree growth under nitrogen-limited conditions
AimsThe Sub-Boreal Pine-Spruce xeric-cold (SBPSxc) biogeoclimatic region in British Columbia, Canada is characterized by weakly-developed soils, thin...
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Cold tolerance of black spruce, white spruce, jack pine, and lodgepole pine seedlings at different stages of spring dehardening
Understanding tree vulnerability to freezing temperatures will help resource managers to mitigate the effects of climatic variability. To test the...
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Naïve Pine Terpene Response to the Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) through the Seasons
Insect herbivores must contend with constitutive and induced plant defenses. The mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins (Coleoptera:...
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Comparison of deacclimation and reacclimation of silver birch, Norway spruce and Scots pine seedlings during winter warm and cold spells in Nordic boreal conditions
Climate change means that in many areas in boreal region, the duration and thickness of the winter snow cover is decreasing. Young seedlings are...
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Natural regeneration of lodgepole pine in boreal Sweden
The large-scale introduction of lodgepole pine ( Pinus contorta ssp. latifolia , LP) into Swedish forests was initiated around 1970, and currently...
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Estimating canopy chlorophyll in slash pine using multitemporal vegetation indices from uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs)
Canopy Chlorophyll Content (CCC) is an important physiological indicator that reflects the growth stage of trees. Accurate estimation of CCC...
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Genomic virulence features of Beauveria bassiana as a biocontrol agent for the mountain pine beetle population
BackgroundThe mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae , is an irruptive bark beetle that causes extensive mortality to many pine species within...
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Nitrogen uptake, retranslocation and potential N2-fixation in Scots pine and Norway spruce seedlings
Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestris L.) has higher early growth rates than Norway spruce ( Picea abies (L.) H. Karst.). To help efforts to understand...
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Prediction accuracy of single-step BLUP for growth and wood quality traits in the lodgepole pine breeding program in British Columbia
Single-step best linear unbiased prediction (HBLUP) is a method used to predict breeding values by combining pairwise relatedness information derived...
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Role of black pine (Pinus nigra J. F. Arnold) in European forests modified by climate change
In the twenty-first century, it is crucial to see climate change not only as a risk that can cause large-scale forest disturbances but also as an...
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On the limited consensus of mountain pine beetle impacts on wildfire
ContextThe mountain pine beetle (MPB; Dendroctonus ponderosae ) is a native bark beetle whose outbreaks leads to widespread conifer forest mortality....
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Seasonal Changes in the Composition of Scots Pine (Pinus Syvestris L.) Oleoresin, Measured by the NMR Method
AbstractSeasonal changes in the composition of Scots pine oleoresin were analyzed by 1 H and 13 C NMR spectroscopy. Due to favorable weather...
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Effect of logging residue removal and mechanical site preparation on productivity of the subsequent Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) stands
Key messageRemoval of logging residue negatively affected tree diameter and height, but had no significant effect on the basal area of the subsequent...
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Modeled interactions of mountain pine beetle and wildland fire under future climate and management scenarios for three western US landscapes
BackgroundMountain pine beetle (MPB) is a native disturbance agent across most pine forests in the western US. Climate changes will directly and...
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Selection of Suitable Methods for Sample Preparation and Desorbing Agents for Determination of Nutrient Contents in Scots Pine Roots
AbstractDetermining the nutrient composition of woody plant roots is an important tool for studying the physiological response of trees to various...
