Shoot Dieback of Planted Sand Pine Caused by Fusarium moniliforme var. subglutinans. G. M. Blakeslee, Assistant Professor of Forest Pathology, School of Forest Resources and Conservation and Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611. S. W. Oak, Biologist, and S. H. Kratka, Assistant in Forest Pathology, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611. Plant Dis. 64:703-704. Copyright 1980 American Phytopathological Society. DOI: 10.1094/PD-64-703.

Fusarium moniliforme var. subglutinans was identified as the cause of shoot dieback in plantation-grown Ocala and Choctawhatchee varieties of Pinus clausa in Florida. Isolates cultured from sand pine were pathogenic to seedlings of both slash and sand pine. Sand pine seedlings were also susceptible to isolates of F. moniliforme var. subglutinans obtained from pitch cankers on slash pine.