PANEL III. TREE RUST RESISTANCE PROGENY TEST DESIGN, TECHNIQUES, 

 AND ANALYSIS 

 Walter A. Beaker MODERATOR 297 



SECTION A. LEAD PAPER 299 



Klaus Stern 



THE THEORETICAL BASIS OF RUST RESISTANCE TESTING- - 



CONCEPT OF GENETIC GAIN IN BREEDING RESISTANT TREES .... 299 



SECTION B. TREE RUST INOCULATION PROBLEMS AND TECHNIQUES 



Robert F. Patton Section Moderator 313 



Allan Klingstr'dm 



MELAMPSORA PINITORQUA (BRAUN) ROSTR. AND PERIDERMIUM PINI 

 (WILLD.) KLEB., INOCULATION PROBLEMS AND TECHNIQUES .... 313 



Glen A. Snow and Albert G. Kais 



TECHNIQUE FOR INOCULATING PINE SEEDLINGS WITH 



CRONARTIUM FUSIFORME 325 



L. David Dwinell 



AN INOCULATION SYSTEM FOR CRONARTIUM FUSIFORME 327 



Ronald J. Dinus 



TESTING FOR FUSIFORM RUST RESISTANCE IN SLASH PINE 331 



Robert A. Schmidt 



A LITERATURE REVIEW OF INOCULATION TECHNIQUES USED IN 



STUDIES OF FUSIFORM RUST 341 



Richard T. Bingham 



ARTIFICIAL INOCULATION OF LARGE NUMBERS OF PINUS MONTICOLA 

 SEEDLINGS WITH CRONARTIUM RIBICOLA 357 



Robert F. Patton 



INOCULATION METHODS AND PROBLEMS IN TESTING EASTERN WHITE 



PINE FOR RESISTANCE TO CRONARTIUM RIBICOLA 373 



R. M. Router and Louis Zufa 



A RAPID TECHNIQUE FOR THE DETERMINATION OF CRONARTIUM 



RIBICOLA J. C. FISCH. EX RABENH. MYCELIUM IN WHITE PINE 



BARK TISSUE 387 



Robert F. Patton 



SECTION MODERATOR'S SUMMARY: TREE RUST INOCULATION 



PROBLEMS AND TECHNIQUES 391 



SECTION C. DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF PROGENY TESTS 395 



Roger A. McCluskey 



COMPUTERIZED MAPPING OF BLISTER RUST EPIDEMICS IN NURSERY 



SEED BEDS 397 



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