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RECENT trials have shown that inoculation of pine stumps with oidia of Peniophora gigantea prevents infection by spores of the fungus Fomes annosus, causing root-disease of conifers. P. gigantea is an active wood-rotting fungus which under natural conditions often competes with F. annosus, but for various reasons does not provide consistent control. It is a far more effective competitor than wood-inhabiting microfungi such as Trichoderma viride and Penicillium spp., which seldom colonize a fresh stump surface at all freely.
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RISHBETH, J. Inoculation of Pine Stumps against Infection by Fomes annosus. Nature 191, 826–827 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/191826a0
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