Ts. Panesar et al., EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE, RELATIVE-HUMIDITY AND TIME ON SURVIVAL OF PINEWOOD NEMATODES IN WOOD CHIPS, European journal of forest pathology, 24(5), 1994, pp. 287-299
The survival of two Canadian isolates of the pinewood nematode, Bursap
helenchus xylophilus, in coniferous wood chips under different tempera
tures, relative humidities and time intervals was investigated in vitr
o. The nature of the survival mechanism was examined and it was shown
that the nematode's prolonged survival in the chips depended on its di
speral third larval stage. The possibility of PWN-infested wood chips
spreading PWN-induced pine-wilt disease to forests is discussed.