Fungi on Eastern White Pine Seeds with High Moisture Content can Survive Ultralow Temperatures

1989

S. 34-36

15 Lit. Ang.

Unselbständiges Werk

200047583

Inoculated fungi - Fusarium sporotrichioides Sherb and Mucor hiemalis Wehmer - on eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.) seeds with high moisture content survived well after 35 days of storage at -18, -80, -145, and -196C. This shows that storing tree seed at ultralow temperatures will not eliminate fungal pathogens.