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REYNIÁTA Á ISLANDI 27
SUMMARY
Cytospora rubescens Fr. ex Fr. in Iceland.
Halldór Sverrisson
Agr. Res. Institute Reykjavík, Iceland.
Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia L.) is one of the
most important garden tress in Iceland.
Lesions on the bark and dead branches are
frequently found on rowan, but the causes
of this were not known. Amoung the causes
that have been suggested are freezing
damage and the pathogens Nectria gal-
ligena Bres. and Cytospora rubescens Fr.
es Fr., but the pathogenicity of the latter
has been doubted. The aim oF this
investigation was mainly to get an idea of
the seriousness of bark damages in Iceland
and to identify the main cause.
Dead branches proved to be much more
common in Reykjavík in the south-west
partofthecountry, whereabout50% ofthe
trees have many dead branches. In
Akureyri in the north, however, only half
that number of trees were found to be
damaged.
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When fungus isolates and bacteria from
dead bark were tested for their ability to
grow on healthy bark, only Cytospora
rubescens proved to be parthogenic.
Eleven isolates of C. rubescens from
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