Screening spruce for white pine weevil resistance

• Project description
• Distribution of P. strobi in North America
• Genetic variation in canadian weevil populations
• Range of Sitka spruce
• Sources tested for resistance in Western North America
• White pine weevil resistance screening trials
• Mass screening for resistance (Jordan River plantation)
• Ghost trial: studies using caged insects clarified the mating system of weevils
• Artificial wounding studies: Studying plant defenses
• Insect - plant relationships
• Are weevil resistant trees also resistant to other insects?
• Conclusions
• Selected references

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Selected references

Alfaro, R.I.  1994.  The white pine weevil in British Columbia: biology and damage.  Pages 7-22, In R. I. Alfaro, G. Kiss, and R. G. Fraser (eds.), "The white pine weevil: Biology, damage and management."  Proc. of a meeting held Jan. 19-21, 1994, in Richmond, B.C. Canada. Can. For. Serv. FRDA Report No. 226, 311 pp.

Alfaro, R.I. 1998. White pine weevil, Pissodes strobi: risk factors, monitoring and management.  Pacific Forestry Centre.  Technology Transfer Note No. 4. September 1988.

Alfaro, R., Borden, J., Fraser, G., Yanchuk, A. (1994):  An integrated pest management system for the white pine weevil.  pp. 226-238 in: The White Pine Weevil: Biology, Damage and Management.  FRDA Report 226, Alfaro, R., Kiss, G., Fraser, G. (eds.).  Proceedings of a symposium held January 19-21, 1994 in Richmond, British Columbia.

Alfaro, R.I., He, F., Kiss, G, King, J., Yanchuk, A. (1996):  Resistance of white spruce to white pine weevil: development of a resistance index.  Forest Ecology and Management 81: 51-62.

Alfaro, R.I., F. He, E. Tomlin and G. Kiss. 1997. Resistance of white spruce to the white pine weevil related to resin canal density. Can.  J. Bot. 75: 568-573.

Alfaro, R.I., Ying, C. (1990):  Levels of Sitka spruce weevil, Pissodes strobi (Peck), damage among Sitka spruce provenances and families near Sayward, British Columbia.  The Canadian Entomologist 122: 607-615.

Cozens, R.D. (1983):  The spruce weevil, Pissodes strobi Peck (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): A review of its biology, damage and control techniques with reference to the Prince George Timber Supply Area.  British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Forest Service Internal Report PM-PG-3.

He, Fangliang and R.I. Alfaro. 2000. White pine weevil attack on white spruce: a survival time analysis. Ecological Applications 10: 225-232.

King, J.N. (1994): Delivering durable resistant Sitka spruce for plantations. pp. 134-149 in Proc. of conf. on The White Pine Weevil: Biology, Damage and Management, Alfaro, R., Kiss, G., Fraser, G. (eds.).Can. For. Serv. Pac. For. Cent. FRDA Rep. 226. Richmond B.C. Canada.

King, J.N., Yanchuk,A., Kiss, G., Alfaro, R. (1997): Genetic and phenotypic relationships between weevil resistance and height growth in spruce populations of British Columbia. Can. J. For. Res. 27: 732-739.

King, J.N., Alfaro, A., Cartwright, C. Ying, C.(in prep) Genetic resistance of Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis)  to terminal weevil Pissodes strobi . Forest Science (submitted).

Kiss, G.K., Yanchuk, A. (1991):  Preliminary evaluation of genetic variation in interior spruce in British Columbia.  Canadian Journal of Forest Research 21(2): 230-234.

Kiss, G.K, Yanchuk, A., Alfaro, R. (1994): Recent advances in white pine weevil reasearch in British Columbia. in Proc. of conf. on The White Pine Weevil: Biology, Damage and Management, Alfaro, R., Kiss, G., Fraser, G. (eds.).Can. For. Serv. Pac. For. Cent. FRDA Rep. 226. Richmond B.C. Canada.

Lewis, K. (1995):.  Genetic variation among populations of Pissodes strobi (white pine weevil) reared from Picea and Pinus hosts as inferred from RAPD markers.  M.Sc. Thesis, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.  232 pp.

Lewis, K, El-Kassaby, Y., Alfaro, R, Barnes, S.(2000): Population structure of the white pine weevil (Pissodes strobi).  Annals Ent. Soc. Amer. 93: 807-818.

Tomlin, E.S., Antonejevic, E., Alfaro, R.I., Borden, J.H. (1999): Changes in volatile terpene resin acid composition of resistant and suspectible white spruce leaders exposed to simulated white pine weevil damage. Tree Physiology 20, 1087-1095

Tomlin, E.S., Borden, J.H. (1997): Multicomponent Index for Evaluating Resistance by Sitka Spruce to the White Pine Weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). J. Econ. Entomol. 90(2): 704-714

Tomlin, E.S., Alfaro, R.I., Borden, J.H., and He, Fangliang. 1998. Histological response of resistant and susceptible white spruce to simulated white pine weevil damage. Tree Physiology 18: 21-28.

Ying, C. (1991):  Genetic resistance to the white pine weevil in Sitka spruce.  British Columbia Ministry of Forest Research Note No. 196.  Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.  17 pp.

Ying, C. (1997): Effects of site, provenance and site interaction in Sitka spruce in Coastal British Columbia. Forest Genetics 4: 99-112.

Ying, C., Ebata, T. (1994): Provenance variation in weevil attack in Sitka spruce.  pp. 98-109 in: The White Pine Weevil: Biology, Damage and Management.  FRDA Report 226, Alfaro, R., Kiss, G., Fraser, G. (eds.).  Proceedings of a symposium held January 19-21, 1994 in Richmond, British Columbia.

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