Pine Wilt Disease: A Worldwide Threat to Forest Ecosystems

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVIII

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2. Pine Wilt Disease: Global Issues, Trade and Economic Impact

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3

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   2. National Eradication Programme for the Pinewood Nematode

      • José M. Rodrigues

      Pages 5-14

   3. Incursion Management in the Face of Multiple Uncertainties: A Case Study of an Unidentified Nematode Associated with Dying Pines Near Melbourne, Australia

      • Mike Hodda, David Smith, Ian Smith, Lila Nambiar, Ian Pascoe

      Pages 15-40

   4. The Risk of Pine Wilt Disease to Australia and New Zealand

      • Simon A. Lawson, Shiroma Sathyapala

      Pages 41-58

   5. Pine Wilt Disease: A Threat to Pine Forests in Turkey?

      • Süleyman Akbulut, Beşir Yüksel, Ismail Baysal, Paulo Vieira, Manuel Mota

      Pages 59-67

   6. Investigations on Wood–Inhabiting Nematodes of the Genus Bursaphelenchus in Pine Forests in the Brandenburg Province, Germany

      • Ute Schönfeld, Helen Braasch, Wolfgang Burgermeister, Helmut Bröther

      Pages 69-74

   7. Official Survey for Bursaphelenchus xylophilus Carried out on the Territory of the Republic of Poland

      • Witold Karnkowski

      Pages 75-81

   8. Bursaphelenchus spp. in Wood Packaging Intercepted in China

      • Jianfeng Gu, Jiancheng Zhang, Xianfeng Chen, Helen Braasch, Wolfgang Burgermeister

      Pages 83-88

3. Biology and Microbial Inter-Relationships

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-90

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   2. Developmental Biology and Cytogenetics of Bursaphelenchus xylophilus

      • Koichi Hasegawa, Manuel Mota, Kazuyoshi Futai, Johji Miwa

      Pages 91-100

   3. The Relationship Between the Pinewood Nematode (PWN) and Fungi Cohabiting in aine Trees Inoculated with the PWN

      • Rina Sriwati, Shuhei Takemoto, Kazuyoshi Futai

      Pages 101-114

   4. Influence of Fungi on Multiplication and Distribution of the Pinewood Nematode

      • Yu Wang, Toshihiro Yamada, Daisuke Sakaue, Kazuo Suzuki

      Pages 115-128

4. PWN Taxonomy and Detection Methods

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-132

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   2. Electronic Taxonomic Databases for Bursaphelenchus and Other Aphelenchid Nematodes

      • Jonathan D. Eisenback, Paulo Vieira, Manuel Mota, Alexander Ryss

      Pages 133-138

   3. The Enlargement of the xylophilus Group in the Genus Bursaphelenchus

      • Helen Braasch

      Pages 139-150

   4. Variation in ITS and 28S rDNA of Bursaphelenchus Species (Nematoda: Parasitaphelenchidae)

      • Kai Metge, Helen Braasch, Jianfeng Gu, Wolfgang Burgermeister

      Pages 151-164

   5. Molecular Characterization of Isolates of the Bursaphelenchus sexdentati Group Using Ribosomal DNA Sequences and ITS-RFLP

      • Cornelia Lange, Wolfgang Burgermeister, Kai Metge, Helen Braasch

      Pages 165-173

   6. Analysis of Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Nematoda: Parasitaphelenchidae) Provenances Using ISSR and RAPD Fingerprints

      • Kai Metge, Wolfgang Burgermeister

      Pages 175-186

   7. Satellite DNA as a Versatile Genetic Marker for Bursaphelenchus xylophilus

      • Philippe Castagnone-Sereno, Chantal Castagnone, Cécile François, Pierre Abad

      Pages 187-195

Pine wilt disease (PWD) is unquestionably a major threat to forest ecosystems worldwide. After seriously affecting Eastern Asian countries, the challenge is now in Europe, following its detection in Portugal in 1999 and its subsequent spread. For foresters, these were really very bad news and, in order for adequate action to be taken, scientists had to teach politicians about the seriousness of the problem. That is never an easy task, but it was successfully done at that time, mainly by the continued effort of Professor Manuel Mota. The challenge of having political decisions based on good science is fundamental for the success of any program, but especially in dif?cult situations such as those arising by the introduction of harmful organisms in new ecosystems. The success of the dialogue between science and policy requires intelligent partners from each side, which is not always necessarily the case... Examples of lack of recognition of problems raised by science are unfortunately abundant throughout the history of science. The recent recognition of the efforts of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore with the - bel Prize, and the continued failure in taking appropriate actions by major political players is a dramatic modern example of the dif?culty of this dialogue...

• Flora
• Forestry
• Fungi
• Ordination
• Wood products
• databases
• ecology
• forest
• physiology
• seedlings
• Model invertebrates

From the reviews:

"This volume … focused on a variety of topics relevant to PWD, including the threat to forest ecosystems, a summary of the current state of PWD research and insights into future scientific developments. … the coverage of this book is comprehensive, each chapter providing an interesting and authoritative account of the current developments in PWD research. … this is a useful, reasonably up-to-date and competently executed volume that justifies a niche on the shelf of all those involved in the PWD arena." (David J. Hunt, Nematology, Vol. 11 (2), 2009)

• ICAM – Universidade de Évora, Portugal

  Manuel M. Mota, Paulo Vieira

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