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Butt rots


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    • Bole rot diseases
    • Bole rots
    • Butt rot diseases
    • Rot diseases, Butt
    • Rots, Butt
    • Trunk rot diseases
    • Trunk rots
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    • found: Work cat.: International Conference on Root and Butt Rots (10th : 2001 : Québec, Québec). Root and butt rots of forest trees, c2003.
    • found: The dict. of forestry, c1998(butt rot: any decay or rot developing in, and sometimes characteristically confined to, the upper root crown and base or lower stem of a tree. Many butt rots occur in both the roots and butt and are not easily separated into root and butt rots. Synonym: trunk rot, bole rot)
    • found: Dictionnaire de la foresterie, c2000(butt rot)
    • found: Butt rots : a guide to major insects, diseases, and chemical injury, via WWW, Oct. 14, 2004(Butt rot, the decay at the base of living trees, is the result of the invasion of one of a number of decay fungi (Polyporus spp., Hericium spp., and Pleurotus spp.) which enters the trees through wounds.)
    • found: Ash pests : a guide to major insects, diseases, air pollution injury, and chemical injury, via WWW, Oct. 14, 2004:Butt Rots (Butt Rots. Decay of the butt log in living trees is the most serious cause of cull loss for logging because it affects the highest valued log and weakens the tree ... Numerous fungi cause butt rot in ashes ... Exposed wounds are sites of entry of decay fungi)
    • found: Grand, L.F. Root and butt rot of oaks, via WWW, Oct. 14, 2004(Several species of wood decay fungi cause root and butt rot of oaks)
    • found: Butt rots : have you checked lately?, via WWW, Oct. 14, 2004("butt rot" refers to decay fungi that attack the base ("butt") and roots of trees; butt and root rots may be the most damaging but least understood tree diseases)
    • found: Florida Div. of Forestry web site, Oct. 14, 2004:Forest Health > Publications > Insects and Diseases > Root and Butt Rots (Disease: Root and Butt Rots. Pathogens: Various fungi. Many fungi are capable of causing root rots and some cause considerable decay of the butts of trees as well)
    • found: LC database, Oct. 14, 2004(butt rot; butt rots)
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    • 2004-10-14: new
    • 2004-12-03: revised
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