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Influence of Chronic Partial Defoliation of Larch by Casebearer on the Physiological Parameters of the Stem

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In the long-term explosion of mass reproduction of the larch casebearer (Coleophora sibiricella Falkovitsh) in a pure larch stand, the stem phloem responses of larch trees (Larix sibirica Ledeb.) to wounding damage or inoculation of the trunk with the fungal inductor were studied. The mycelium of the ophiostomatoid fungus Ceratocystis laricicola Redfern & Minter and its extractive and the protein fraction obtained from the extractive were used as a fungal inductor. The content of lignin, starch, and condensed tannins (proanthocyanidins) in the phloem was determined at the beginning of the experiment (zero days), and after seven and 14 days. Using ANOVA analysis, it was shown that the response parameters of the phloem did not depend on the kind of the fungal inoculum (P ≥ 0.918), but depended on other factors (P ≤ 0.005), such as damage to the crown by the moth, time from the start of the experiment, and the presence of the inoculum in the wound.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors would like to thank V.P. Vetrova (Pacific Geographical Institute) for assistance in organizing the field experiment and Y.N. Baranchikov (Sukachev Institute of Forest) for assistance in selecting the forest massif.

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This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 15-04-06575.

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Polyakova, G.G., Pashenova, N.V. & Senashova, V.A. Influence of Chronic Partial Defoliation of Larch by Casebearer on the Physiological Parameters of the Stem. Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 47, 49–55 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359020010100

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