Tank Test Method for Determining Rootstock Resistance to Pine Vole Attack

Authors

John C. Wysolmerski, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory, Winchester, VA
R. E. Byers, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Winchester, VA
James N. Cummins, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Geneva, NY

Date of this Version

February 1978

Comments

Published in Proceedings of the Second Eastern Pine and Meadow Vole Symposium, Beltsville, Maryland, February 23-24, 1978, Ross E. Byers, editor. Copyright © 1978 Wysolmerski, Byers, and Cummins.

Abstract

Pine vole attack of one-year-old stem tissue of clones representing many hybrid and other species revealed 5 cultivars apparently less susceptible to damage when compared to Golden Delicious stems. Fusca seemed to be least attacked along with 74R5M9-62, PI 286613, N.Y. 11928, and Hall.