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By June 11 all of the field load Insects had died or left the trees. Leaf damage to the test trees when measured on June 3 was relatively light. Leaves exhibiting noticeable damage averaged 27.6 i 2.1% (S.E.) for the control trees and 49.0 i 4.7% for test trees (p < 0.01, one-tailed paired t test). Estimated leaf area loss averaged 2.5 + 0.2% for controls and 11.3 i 2.1% for test trees (p < 0.005, one-tailed paired t test). Damage to control trees was due to unidentified insects other than tent caterpillars. 

The test trees were reloaded with additional colonies of tent caterpillars... 

Due to the very poor performance of the Insects in the field, as had been noted in the alder experiment above, the test trees were reloaded with an average of 8.0 1 1.0 (S.E.) additional colonies of tent caterpillars, obtained from alder, since none were available from willow, on May 22. These additional colonies were mainly in the 4th and early 5th Instar, whereas the original larvae hatched on the trees were still mainly in the third Instar. Thus, at the time of reload, the trees experienced a large... 

It is possible that the rapid drop in biomass of the assay Insects feeding on leaves from attacked and control trees coincided with reload of the test trees by chance, possibly due to the rapid spread of a pathogen through the laboratory Insect population (11). On the other hand, the possibility that reload of the test trees caused the biomass drop in both test and control assay Insects cannot be discounted. Both attacked and nearby unattacked control willows may have rapidly decreased the food quality of their leaves in response to a sudden Increase In biomass of Insects on the attacked trees. If so, this suggests that unattacked willows are sensitive to signals from the Insects or nearby attacked willows. This possibility was investigated in the following experiment. 

Figure 2. Top normalized average relative growth rates of groups of western tent caterpillar larvae raised in the laboratory of leaves from test, nearby control, and far control Sitka willow trees. The test trees were loaded with tent caterpillar colonies on the indicated date. Bottom density of tent caterpillar larvae attacking the...

On September 9 fresh colonies obtained from alder were reloaded onto the test trees at approximately the same density as In the original load (Figure 3). A census was obtained on September 15, and the remaining larvae were removed and counted on September 21. At this time leaves attacked (%) averaged A (test group), 61.4 3.1 B, 8.5 1.1 C, 9.4 1.7 D, 14.7 2.1. Estimated leaf area loss (%) averaged A, 30.6 t 2.7 B,... 

Figure 8.3 Strain gage balance installed in model trunk of individual test tree.

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In the previous discussion we have broadly compared trees generated from widely differing character sets. For each tree, a matrix of ultrametric distance values has been computed in order to test the goodness of fit of the cluster analyses to the data (Rohlf and Sokal, 1981). The resultant coefficients of cophenetic correlation indicated very good fits (r > 0.9) for all tested trees with the exception of the tree based on body... 

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Field genetic tests of F2 improved material in Idaho have mortality rates that average 42% lower than controls (unselected seedlots) over sites with a wide range in blister rust severity. Operational trials of F2 versus unimproved stock have yielded similar results, with mortality rates of 7% for improved material and 42% for unimproved stock. Tests have also shown that infection levels vary greatly from one site to another (Fins et al., 2001). In coastal British Columbia, progeny of phenotypically selected and tested trees had infection levels of 13% in field trials, while unselected trees had infection levels of 95% and above (Hunt and Meagher, 1989). 

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