-take 60 yrs to produce cones so breeding won't work
-collect cones from apparent resistant trees
-expose seedling to pathogen
-wait 3 yrs - survived outplanted
-~70% survive first few yers
-doesnt address mountain pine beetle & climate change
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white pine blister rust
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-cronatium ribicola
-exotic, Europe
-host: all5 needles pine and ribes
-close to 5 needle extinction
-causes resinosis & flagging (red branches)
-cankers in stem & event kills
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spruce broom rusts
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chrsomyta artostaphyli
-alt between engelman spruce and kinnikinnik
-forms witches broom on infected branches
-usu not a problem unless severe
-bird nesting habitat, traditional medicine
-native
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history of white pine blister rust
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intro in the 1900 on both coasts as result of 'outsourcing' (~6% of seeds infected)
immediate & widespread
man: cutting infected trees, attempted extinction of all native currants; elimation of all commercial berry farms
-breeding for resistance
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western gall rust
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-endocronartium harknessii
-ponderosa & lodgepole
-no alt hosts
-branches eventually die
-if main stem: young = lethal, old = persistent
-native
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commander blister rust
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-cronartium comandare
-ponder & lodge: alt
-serious disease where conditions are right
-considerable native resistant
-as canker grows, they slough bark from older dead portions
-when canker girdles, tree dies
-food for rodents
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gen info
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-caused only by basidiomycete fungi
-some, not all, have alt hosts
-common names from colors of spore
-require cool moist conditions